Do We Let Parents Off The Hook For Too Much?

Complicated, but potentially true.

Try to answer this question before anything else:

What is the role of a parent?

If you ask someone this question, you get a lot of generic, platitude-sounding words including:

• Nurturing
• Guiding
• Learning
• Developing
• “Not a friend”
• Setting boundaries
• Creating good adults
• Something about love
• Etc.

Those are the big bucket responses. Ironically, if you ask someone in a corporate role what the point of leadership is, you get the same responses — even though in the latter case, the point of leadership is “Now I make more money,” and a lot of times, the point of parenthood is “Well, I mean, everyone else I knew was doing at at this time.”

What’s the full list of reasons why people have kids?

Here is my pastor yesterday in sermon: