back The Woes of Millennial Parenting and Finding Solutions

30 April, 2022
created by Prateek

With the pressures of doing well in society, modern-day parents are under so much stress to raise their children who do well in the future. It requires massive amounts of involvement, enthusiasm, and the state of mind to understand the child’s brain, with so much happening around the world, which gets tiresome and confusing for young parents.

But since most parents’ lack guidance about choosing the right methods and mediums, most parents end up burdening themselves and their children. With so many market trends, educational sites, online programs, offline workshops, learning centers, hobby classes, online classes, coaching classes, online learning apps, activities, and such ventures, parents want to do what is best for a child but because there are so many options, they are not fully equipped with the power of decision making, henceforth, chaos and stress rise

Social media is yet another tool that has caused massive problems among parents. Whether to allow their children to use it, not use it, what is the right amount of time that children spend on social media, and what they are learning through social media, are some of the hundreds of questions that go through the minds of parents every day. Indeed, the advantages of internet-based media are huge but we cannot undermine the associated risk. This leads to a state of panic and confusion among parents as they are left perplexed about how to supervise and regulate the content that their children consume from digital media.

Sometimes parents want their kids to pursue their dreams and chase what they like, for instance, be it sports, music, or arts. But what obstructs the path of these extremely supportive parents is the unavailability of resources and adequate platforms to develop the child’s potential.

It is agonizing to see many students wanting to pursue their passions and making careers out of unconventional paths, but the mediums to enable them to unlock their potential are limited and only a very few children can make it. The rest of them go home with shattered dreams and broken hearts. To prevent their kids from experiencing the heart-wrenching sight of their dreams crushing before their eyes, parents usually do not support the unconventional career paths.

This raises a wall between many children and parents whereby the child thinks that their parents are not understanding them and are not empathetic enough. This then leads to emotional and psychological damage in parent-child relationships.

Every student is unique. This leads to differences in comprehensive capacities, learning skills, skill sets, time taken to grasp a particular topic, and this large group of students is assumed to be one single child, which is inherently wrong and unfairly biased towards quick learners.

This whole process leaves some students feeling demotivated, primarily because they grasp the academic concepts a little slower than their peers. This leads to their parents trying to provide channels for motivation which, if misdirected or misinterpreted, can cause resentment in young children for their parents.

However, this is the time parents find out what their child wants in life and then craft a ladder to reach the same floor of success alongside their children. This is the time parents devote time to research to find out what is best for their children and talk to them as much as possible to bridge the communication gap

Eventually parents figure out that there is no single answer to their woes and try to set up channels for more one-on-one mentorship with trained professionals. A one-on-one-mentor who an help children with goal setting, motivation, content recomendations and guidance is the only solution to the millennial-parent problem