A question that many agree on, yet have different views on the best way to achieve that purpose. In my opinion, the purpose of parenting is to provide, protect, and teach your children.
Your responsibility as a parent is to provide for the physical and emotional needs of the child.
Your responsibility as a parent is to protect them from physical and (within reason) emotional harm. Of course, it is not possible-and probably actually damaging to their future-to protect them from everything that could EVER possibly hurt them emotionally.
Your responsibility as a parent is to TEACH them. I think this is one responsibility that is being put on the back burner more and more frequently today. Parents are turing to teachers and other important people in the child's life to raise them. But their are missing what I believe to be the most important part of being a parent! Being the primary person in the child's life, you have the greatest capability of shaping and molding them into the person that will one day go out into society as an adult. You teach them how to work, how to cope with emotions and stress, how to respect others. Without this so very important task, our children will be lost.
I cannot wait to become a father and get to provide for them, protect them, and teach them.
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