How much children should be listened to

We were asked in class to answer the questions how much do you observe children being listened to today? And how much should they be listened to? I decided I would elaborate on this idea more in my blog.

I think it depends on the family and their situation on how much the parents listen to their children. If the family is well off then the child may get everything they ask for. Even though the parents are listening to the child, as to what they want this is not necessarily what is best for them, so in this case children should not be listened to all the time. I think in today`s society child may be listened to too much if they get everything they want, because the parents are too busy with other things like work. Before mothers started to work outside the family children may have been listened to in the way they feel a lot more because their mom was always there to listen and care for them, that was the mother’s job. My mom was a stay at home mom and I feel I was listened to, but probably because she was always there to listen to me and support me. She was not away working so I was able to talk to her whenever I wanted. If I wanted to talk to her during school I could just phone her at home, where other kids couldn’t phone their parents because they were at work. On the other hand I was not given every little thing I wanted, where children with two income families may have been. A parent needs to listen to the child`s thoughts and feelings. They need to let them be creative and their individual self, but not spoil them. A parent should also care and show the child respect by listening to the child. The parent needs to listen to the child and the child needs to listen to the parent.