The title of this blog post might seem harsh, but I think it is in general true and is not a bad thing. Typically parents want what is best for their children, which is usually better than what they had. This extends to not just one's situation in life but also personality.
We tend to pick up our parents' personality traits over the years. Because of this, parents often times try to train out the traits they feel are bad. But if you picked the trait up from your parent, doesn't that typically lead to your parent doing something that they have been trying to teach you not to do?
The perfect example of this is one of my father's favorite phrases: "do as I say, not as I do". That statement means he is being a hypocrite. But since he is trying to get me to do something "better" than what he does, is that such a bad thing? I know it is infuriating to kids when they catch their parents being hypocrites, but they have the benefit of hindsight as to what in their personality has been good or bad, but quite possibly lack the ability to ditch the trait themselves. Parents who try to improve their children might just inherently have to be hypocrites.
2 comments:
Being a hypocrite seems to me to do it not knowing that you produce the opposite of the intended projection and, therefore, when someone says that they want you to purposely do the opposite of them, that is not hypocricy. I can think of other words.
What does the dictionary say?
MOM
It says "a person who indulges in hypocrisy". Looking at "hypocrisy", it says "the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense".
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