Do Parents Have It Harder In 2025?

Do parents receive too much blame today for being imperfect? The big word in that sentence is today. Meaning, has it become a thing nowadays in this generation to hold parents to an unrealistic standard? I have been accused, by the way, of being part of this problem that I am causing parents to be held to too high of a standard that's just unrealistic. I want to explain something. Two things can be true at the same time. And one of them can be important for one audience and the other can be important for the other audience. When I speak to parents, yeah, I encourage us mothers and fathers to aspire to a level of perfection. We're not going to reach it, but we aspire to a real level of selflessness where we really, really give to our children and expect nothing in return. And that's what we aspire to. And that's what I encourage parents to live up to. And I'm very proud of that because I see the results with the parents that I work with. At the same time, if I'm speaking to children, I'll tell them the exact opposite, which is your parents are only human. Of course, they're imperfect, just like you feel you didn't get everything from them that you wanted. They didn't get everything from their parents that they wanted, and so on and so forth. So, cut them some slack. So, both things can be true at the same time, but as far as us parents, we need to hold ourselves accountable to at least try to be selfless. And the fact that some parents are pushing back nowadays and saying, "Well, what about in the old days when there was honor your mother and your father?" And I'm going to tell you the truth. I think in the old days, a lot of parents got away with murder. They were not the parents they could have been. They did not push themselves to the level they could have pushed themselves and they used that as their excuse. And I'm happy that today less and less parents are using that as their excuse. I don't want, God forbid, that children should weaponize that against their parents and judge their parents, God forbid, because that's not the child's place to judge the parent. that I'm happy that parents are holding themselves more accountable.