Parent Shouldn't Take Away Their Child's Best Friend for Being Different

Parents, siblings and all other relationships in a child’s life are predetermined when they get the first glimpse of this world. But a friend is someone they have the liberty to choose. It is something about which a person can not be calculative. Friendship is a term that encapsulates a bunch of emotions in it. Every child develops own perspective about friendship. For some, a friend is a support in those bothersome moments and some share secrets with them. Hence it should be a matter of individual discretion, even for a child whom he wants to be palls with. Inspite of the fact that parents are the best guides of a child, at times they become overprotective about their child’s choice of friends and freeze the natural flow of the innocent spirit of friendship. So parents should not interfere when the kid is moving towards a self-chosen friendship.

I understand that parents are often very protective of who befriends their children, but they should be open to allowing their kids to choose their own friends, without their interference. Additionally, parents have no reason to fear if their child befriends a classmate or a neighbour of a different ethnic, linguistic or religious background, or kids from single-parent homes. If anything, getting accustomed to these differences at a young age will make sure that the child feels much more comfortable embracing diversity of all sorts.

No parent should take away their child's friend unless the friend is harming the child in some way. Children should be left to make their own friends. They should be left to discover who they think is worthy of being their friend, not who the parents think is worthy.

If a parent constantly rules a child by telling them who is and isn't worthy of the child's friendship then the child will never make their own decisions and it could have a negative effect on the child. Children should be raised to accept people for who they are. It would be unfair of the parents to deprive their child of someone who is a good friend simply because the parents feel that the friend isn't good enough.

At a young age, children do not see differences in the same way that adults do. mainly because they have not yet come into contact with prejudice, or have not come to understand the tensions between different groups. Kids also have a real talent for seeing beyond these differences.