There are 4 grades of parents.
Grade 1a: supportive parents both financially and emotionally.This are kind of parents will pay for the children overseas or local education. They give their children freedom to explore, respectful of their children opinion, occasionally guiding them without being intrusive. They may also inject cash into the children start up or house.
Grade 1b. Emotionally supportive but unable to support financially as grade 1a parents
Grade 2: neutral parents. They don’t demand excessive allowance nor do they offer much useful advice，but they do give children freedom to explore
Grade 3a: somewhat toxic parents. They occasionally demand excessive allowance and occasionally criticize you for whatever you do. You can never get up to the standard
Grade 3b: like grade 3a but more constant verbal abuse
Grade 4a: physically abusive parents. Coming home drunk and beating up the kids
Grade 4b: this group of parents is minority and may involve abuse.
Most parents are going fall into group 2. Some group 1b and some group 3a.
If you r lucky, you will have grade 1a parents.
Here are what netizens think:
- If you are lucky, you have any parents at all. Always count your blessings. Not everything is a race or up for comparison.
- There are 2 grades of people who complain about their parents. Grade normal: normal people who complain about their parents but will not post online about it. Grade A for “annoying anonymous”: Everyone has some type of issues with their parents but it takes this special breed to post online about their parents, whether their intention is to garner sympathy or not is uncertain.
- To be very very honest, we want our parents to be 1a but it’s only when we become parents, we realize just how many people can have the resources in terms of time and financial. Not to mention that these finite resources have to be shared amongst siblings – often unequally. In reality, in most cases, parents have their struggles and will very often try their best for their children. They may not have given a lot as compare to someone else but they may have given their all.
- why it is better to stay single or married without children, because even if you are doing your best to provide for your children, so long you cannot meet their demand, you immediately became low grade. Parents are humans too, they have their wants and needs, but many times they have to forgo their wants and needs to take care of their children wants and needs, but that is not enough for the children since you gave birth to me you must provide me with the best.
- Our parents have also been struggling with their own set of problems and baggages. You have baggages and problems, so do they. If you truly want to move on for the better, you have to take responsibility into your own hands. I do not have priveleged parents and neither do my friends. Even the seemingly perfect parents or perfect families actually have problems that you don’t see. If you think that some people really do have perfect/ideal parents or background, maybe you should get to know them better. Everyone has their own struggles. You have yours. So do your parents.