I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
It's tough for a child to deal with expectations that people have if they have a successful parent. A child often fails to cope with the same and constantly tries to find out possible ways to excel - just to live up to the name.
It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.
Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'
We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean?
I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
