Billy Ray Cyrus recently admitted that he should have been a better parent to his famous daughter, Miley Cyrus, rather than a friend.
The president of Focus on Family, a prominent evangelical organization, agrees, saying that a parent should simply be a parent.
In a blog post Wednesday, Jim Daly suggested that Cyrus made bad parenting judgment by trying to be friends with his daughter – originally named Destiny Hope but who in her early years was nicknamed “Smiley” for her incessant, carefree grin.
Daly stressed that even though it’s natural for a parent to be liked by their children, they must they first have to ask themselves, “Do we want to be their best pal – or their parent who often has to hold firm and say ‘no’ when they desperately want us to say ‘yes’?”
Cyrus made headlines this week after he told GQ magazine that he regretted being in the popular Disney show “Hannah Montana” because it destroyed his family. He also lamented about trying to be a friend to his daughter as he had often emphasized in many interviews.
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By: Josephine Vivaldo|Christian Post Contributor
1 comment:
It's really easy to say something you think is very effective like how Billy Ray says it's best to treat your kids as friends. But only realizes it too late that it never did any good to their relationship.
Maybe to some extent, he may be right to have had such kind of relationship with his daughter, Miley, but too much or too little of everything is never too good.
I hope this serves as a lesson to parents like me that being a parent does not only mean that it's enough to just be there for their teens as a friend but also someone who guides them through every phases in their lives. Even if it means saying mostly "no" to every request they say. If it's for our children's own good, then why not?
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