According to optimistic people, parenting should be considered a privilege and not a right. It's true because being a parent to your child provides you the ultimate happiness in life.
We may be happy doing the mommy and daddy duties the best way we can but still we cannot escape the fact that parenting is really a tough and stressful job. A new research has found that trying your best to be a perfect parent can be detrimental to your health.
According to Mail Online, a study from the University of Michigan has shown that mothers are naturally concerned about what other people will say about their effectiveness as a parent. These mothers who are having problems in keeping their child behaved in public or keeping their babies calm at all times are likely to have mental health problems like depression.
Dr. Thomason, one of the researchers of this study at the University of Michigan said, "Kids are supposed to be perfect and well behaved, and if that's not the case it negatively reflects on you as a parent through public perception."
In related report, a study from Northwestern University in Illinois has revealed that those who are trying to be the perfect parent in a way where they absorb all the rants of their children had a detrimental result in their immunity.
According to The Telegraph, they did the test on 247 parent couples. The results have shown chronic and low-grade inflammation in their cells and getting low immunity.
Therefore, the researchers have concluded that parents who prefer to just listen to their ranting children than tackling with them will have negative effects on their health. If you come to think of it, being a full-time parent who focuses all their time to their children can really have a bad effect on their health.
Even if we want to become the best Mom or Dad, we should not forget our own self that we also have our own health to take care for. Try to have some time off. Have some exercise and get enough rest sometimes to become a happy and a healthy perfect parent.
