Great subject ! I'm not a parent yet so I'll write this essay from a child's point of view.
One day I read a funny thing about a child's evolution of thinking and needing their parents across their lives and it made me reflect. Here it is :
Toddler - very dependent of their parents
Teenagers - "Mom, leave me alone, you never understand me"
Adults - "Mom, where are you ? I need you so much..."
And that's just a small part of what I read. It made me see the relationship with my parents in a different way. They don't say "love your parents while they are near" for nothing...
Of course, it's parents job to get closer to their children, but that is something they don't teach you in any school... On the other hand, I imagine myself as a parent in the first and I'm sure I would love to have a child for whom I would become a role model or a friend.
