In my experience, I have found that father son relationships and mother daughter relationships are in a lot of ways similar. In both of these crucial relationships with adolescents, the parental member is instructing the adolescent to come into their own. Fathers show their boys how to become a man just like mothers will show daughters how they can become a woman. They teach them the things many consider the basic tools to growing up. A father might show his son how to play sports, shave, work with his hands, or even how to dress. Just as similar, a mother often teaches her daughter to do the things many consider traditional, like cooking. I honestly don’t know much about these relationships though.
On the other hand, mother son relationships and father daughter relationships are also very similar. In these relationships the parents show their child how to deal with the opposite sex. Dealing with the opposite sex is critical in a person’s development and problems often develop when a person wasn’t taught well, or at all. In my personal experience, my mother taught me how to be a gentleman and respect women, but at the same time know that their not important to accomplishing my goals. Also, I know that my father talked to my sister when she was young about the double standard she faces. He showed her how guys become cool and girls become ho’s to their peers for essentially the same exact type of behavior.
