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Honestly, I don't understand how some parents can think they can neglect their duties toward their children but still expect the kids to be perfect. Unfortunately, it's the dictatorship mentality Muslims seem to have on every level from state to family. You do what I say because I'm bigger than you. Might makes right. That's the unfortunate attitude parents have, but that's not the way to raise a kid who loves you and is happy to obey you. You might get lucky and end up with a kid like that, but you won't deserve him.

Being a parent is more than just putting food on the table and clothes on the kid's back and sending him to school. Too many parents keep making the kid feel like he's a burden, like they're doing him a favor and he "owes them"- which he does, but it's so wrong to constantly remind people of your favors. How often have we heard the line "If you live in my house, then you live by my rules". So now the kid thinks that it's not his home and that he's not welcome there, just tolerated. What a horrible environment for a kid to grow up in.

Then there's the constant comparison to other kids. Well, the parents should look at themselves- what have they accomplished in their lives? They feel their kid has to make them proud, but are they people their kid can be proud of? Will the kid feel proud to tell his friends that "these are my parents"?

Fact is, too many parents are selfish and think their kid is just a tool to meet their own ends, and to show off to society if the kid happens to be successful.