What is it about being a parent that makes you think you know best? The ability to procreate doesnt imbue you with mystic, all-knowing pwers after-all!
by 
TheJoker
ANSWERS: 10
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It isn't really that they know best, just that they know better (most of the time). Most parents have two/three times as many years of living. Ironically, teenagers also think they know best, and so do toddlers for that matter. Everything thinks they are "right" or have the best solution until something better is offered.
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Life experience
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In my case it did.
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It's what is in your heart...makes you the best....LOVE, security, food, clothing.....emotionally supportive of your kids...taking away from yourself to give to them.....
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Our culture promotes the "mother knows best" myth. If would be parents admitted to themselves that they didn't always know best, they might not be confident enough to have children in the first place (although I certainly believe that for a few people, that would be a desirable outcome). With that said, parents generally do know best when a child is young and inexperienced, but as a child grows older, parents should at least listen to the child's wishes. As a parent, you can consider what your (pre)teen has to say and still maintain your right to say no to unsafe or unreasonable requests.
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As in most species, parents have natural instincts to love their offspring. Most parents want to do what's best to nourish and protect their young, even if they may not always know what's best or use their best judgment. That's because parents are human.
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Most befitting is this quote my own parents use to say to me and so true I have learned these words to be: . "MY PARENTS TRIED TO TELL ME THINGS, I DID LISTEN THE BEST I COULD, YET IT WAS WHEN I HAD CHILDREN OF MY OWN, IT WAS THEN I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD" . It was only when I became a parent that I realized my parents were once young as well. So call it the wisdom that a parent carries rather then viewing it as "all knowing powers".
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I don't think they always know best. However they do give you some honest to god blatant (and sometimes hurtful) truths out of love that others wouldn't dare give. Sometimes parents can see a pattern of events emerging that they themselves once got hurt doing and want to protect their babies (they'll always be their babies) from the same hurt. I never understood my parents until I had children of my own. Now I understand far too well but know my kids will make the same mistakes as me regardless of my nagging or preaching and will only learn from them the same way as I did.
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Experience; learning from mistakes they hope you don't have to make in order to learn!
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That's true, but then again they are older and have a lot more experience in life and everything than we do. So I guess it would be a good idea to listen to them. +5
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