Friday, August 10, 2007

The Dad Effect...

We often read that the best relationship a child shares is with his father. One of my friends' dad is what most of people would call a "cool" dad. No denying of the fact, I'm not one of them. His father lets him travels where ever he wants, whenever he want. He also monitors his academic activities (although he considers that to be an entirely different field) and irrespective of what his academic result is, his "other" fields aren't jeopardized (lets just say, influenced in anyways). My friend turned out to be doing exceedingly well when it comes to hangin’ out and moderately well in academics.

This whole scenario had me wondering how our relationship with our father influences what we will turn out to be. And how will that influence our subsequent relations. Does a healthy relation guarantee a healthy, well interactive relation with our son? Or does a bad relation mean we’ll be having a bad relation with our sons? And if so, is it possible to break the latency. Getting sucked up in all these doubts, one couldn’t help but wonder:
To what extent does a father figure, figures???

3 comments:

Angad said...

i don't understand one thing..just because ur friend isn't performing well academically and his father is still letting him LIVE the other side of his life..u have started questioning the need of a father..thats the most outrageous thing i have ever heard...
just because 'U' THINK that academic excellence is the MOST IMPORTANT thing does not necessarily mean that every one has to think so..everyone takes life with a different perspective and just because ur father lays importance on academics, and probably curbs ur right to LIVE the other part of ur life if u are not performing well academically does not mean that everyone has to think so and do so..
and let me tell u.. there are things which are more important than bookish knowledge..u cannot survive in this world with what u learn from ur books, and maybe his father understands that.
My advise to u my dear friend..just because 'U' find some flaw in some one..do not start questioning his/her need in ur life..no one's perfect..and if u go on thinking like this..u will end up questioning the need of ur family one day in ur life.

Angad said...

“My father considers a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

like i said, everyone has a different perspective.

T Waffle said...

Academically well and enjoying the life has no relation,

Anyways, there are lot of other factor affects you and your son is the company and society you live in.