Blog 6 REVISED

An issue we discussed in class is that parents aren't focusing enough time on their children and on their actual well being. Some parents are too caught up in trying to control what their kids do instead of just giving them the guidance they need and talking about issues that they should discuss with them. Otherwise children usually end up wanting to rebel if their parents are micromanaging them. Children aren't getting everything they need to know just at school, their parents should be there for them to teach them morals and life lessons they don't learn from their teachers. Children need support from their families.  In South Park, the episode we just watched their parents weren't there to talk to them when they needed it and would ignore them because they were too busy trying to protest against a TV show that was too inappropriate and corrupting their kids. Even when they reached out to their teacher, Chef, and Jesus they got ignored so they had no one else to turn too. That made the matter worse for their kids because they had no guidance when they asked for it so they had to go with their own instinct. Now days parents just depend on school to teach their kids all they need to know but in reality they need support at home also. A show that shows parenting is Modern Family, which has a few diverse families that don't all to meet up to standards of "normal". They have problems and make mistakes with giving their kids the wrong advice but they are really involved with their kids lives and are always there for them. It always shows at the end that the families talk to each other to figure out what went wrong. Every family may be dysfunctional in some ways but should work through it together.