Answer:
Every child is special in itself, and it requires a great
deal of patience and love to make them understand
this. Parents should give proper space to children, as
they learn through experiences as well. Children do
tend to learn certain bad habits, to undo that requires
great level of understanding and right approach.
One cannot teach their child everything in one day
and expect them to behave properly henceforth. It is
natural for a child like Amanda to seek freedom at her
place, to curb that freedom means to make her angry
and moody. Growing up of child should not be about
do’s and don’ts only. To have nagging parents judging
every action of child would do more harm than
good. Robin Klein points to the fact that Amanda is
forbidden to do anything without seeking permission.
Everything she does is corrected by her mother all
the time, she cannot perform a single thing according
to her will. She can’t sit lazily around, she can’t eat
chocolate for that would cause acne. Life of Amanda
is very suffocating and limited in itself. She yearns for
freedom and choice. Her mother doesn’t understand
the fact that Amanda is innocent and naive, she is
too small to understand the benefits of advice. Only
thing that matters to Amanda’s mother is what society
will make of Amanda. We witness miserable failure of
parents when Amanda wishes to be an orphan so that
she could be free.
