Parenting Revolution: Handing it on to the Community/Elders???

[AimmEMaN]

Are you open to the idea of a society wherein the Whole Community, with the emphasis on the Elders, raising children?...
While biological parents (men and women) are child bearers?...
Sort of a community described, by the main character Prot, in the movie KPAX...

Essentially, there is no family structure like what we have now... Nor there is marriage... It simply is a community wherein nobody belongs to noone because everybody belongs to everyone...

Raising the children are thus in the hands of Respected Elders. The biological parents see their children whenever they wish, live with them if they choose, but are not solely responsible for the children's care and upbringing. The physical, social, educational, and all other needs are met by the entire community.

Why so?

Haven't you observed that most young parents are ill-equipped because they're hardly finished being parented themselves?
Their parents' mistakes are passed on from generation to generation. Parents only become wonderful parents after their parenting days are over... Mark Twain says something like this about his father, "When I was 19, my father knew nothing. But when I was 35, I was amazed at how much the Old Man had learned."

If I may ask PEXers, in our context, who had experienced being parented by grandparents and their own parents as well: how is it being parented by your grandparents as compared to being parented by your own parents?

Narrowing the topic, are grannies better parents than their children, our own parents?

[f0r5aK3n]

Actually, my viewpoint on this is entirely opposite. I don't want my parents (kids grandparents) to raise them, say, infant to kindergarden. Their social skills won't be as developed as say if they are at a Child care. Their learning ability would improve at a faster rate as well if they are around kids their age. Nowadays, child care have curricculum (sp?) that really works!

[lwc]

grandparents tend to spoil the little ones.
but i would want my kids, when i have them, to experience bonding with their grandparents too. it is a good experience.

the old loves the young and the young enjoy the old. that's my experience anyhow...well, most times, i guess. cannot forget when my lola would be a little strict too, heheh