Mother-daughter relationships, especially through the teen years, can be challenging. Historically speaking also, they usually are challenging. I feel like mothers and daughters are either at each other's throats or the best of friends. Hope for the best, but regardless mothers are supposed to teach the fundametals of being a woman to their daughters. They are supposed to show compassion, understanding, and independence while supporting their husbands. It is an important relationship to continue improving on.
Mother-Son relationships, through my experience, are usually playful ones. The mother gets to experience raising another gender from her own and it is experimental in the beginning. A little boy's wants and needs are very different from a girl's perspective. Even though I don't know a lot about this relationship, I know that it is important for the son to learn about the more emotional side of growing up and listening to his heart, and mothers tend to show more of this than fathers. But again, sometimes fathers are the more emotional ones, so...
Father-daughter relationships are special. The dads usually spoil their little girls and are very protective. They see their daughters as innocent and fragile and see to it that their job be nuturing her in a manly way. I think when dads don't know how to emotionally attach to their daughters, that is when the materialistic spoiling comes into play. The daughter warms the dads heart and believes he can do anything. Very cute.
Father and son are meant to be. They get to guy-bond and do things like fishing and have the safe sex talk. Fathers get to start off their sentences with, "Well, son when I was your age..." Fathers get to teach their sons from experience and the sons have a greater respect for their father because he can relate.
:) yay family
yay family :)
ReplyDeleteThere are some mother-son relationships that I know of that are the complete opposite of playful. Like, the mother's are scary and angry and abusive. The son either lashes out or recedes back into himself emotionally.
I liked how well you were able to articulate your thoughts on the different aspects of the four relationships. I also found the part where you mentioned with the father and son and the saf sex talk to be interesting and for the most part true.
ReplyDeletei agree... mother daughter relatiionships are always challenging!
ReplyDeleteMostly accurate description of a Father-Son relationship, but I feel like you dismissed the difficulty of that relationship as well. I can say from personal experience that Father-Son relationships aren't all fishing trips and anecdotes!
ReplyDeleteSTILL LOVE YOU THOUGH.