Okay! Thread of what i think about parent-child relationships. Feel free to comment, I'd love to hear what you'd say about my opinion whether you've raised a kid or not. +

Disclaimer: I've never been a parent to a human before, i've only raised and taken care of birds, dogs and my cats. What i'm about to say is just how I think things between a parent and child should be as a kid that doesn't feel cared for emotionally. +

1. I don't get why some parents think that affection towards their child is optional. It's not.

Affection can be physical (hugs, kisses, gentle touches), words of affirmation, listening and actually understanding their kid or maybe the occasional gift. +

Cont. of 1.
Feeding, housing, sending a child to a school OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING and providing basic necessities as well as other things that enrich their experience while they're under your roof is a responsibility, not the child's privilege. +

2. Some parents think their childs are being ungrateful bastards when they've been doing more than what their own parents had done for them. I feel they haven't thought that their parents weren't the best ones to base off of. They were probably raised with the notion +

that the responsibilities of their parents were privileges, that their own parents weren't obliged to feed them and give them a home. +

3. My parents constantly told me that how I treat them will dictate how my own children would treat me someday but the reality is this: how parents treat their kids is how their kids will treat them when they grow up.

If they don't teach their kids to be loving, it's going +

to be pretty fucking hard for that kid to love and to learn how to show it in healthy ways because they never saw it in their home, where they spent most of their time in during childhood and their teenage years. +