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Father As The Guru Of Life Analysis

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Father as The Guru of Life
According to Silverstein (1996), historically father have been responsible not only for the economic support of the family but also for child religious, moral and vocational training as well. The same narrative was echoed at Best Life Indonesia’s discourse of fatherhood. Teaching the values and the principal of life, being child’s role model, passing down the philosophical meaning of life were father’s tasks in raising his child. The article Father as The Child’s Teacher of Life (Estri, 2012) told the story about father as a wise figure that each of his words was reliable. Since father’s words were based on his life experience as the head of the family, a husband for his wife and a father for his children. Though at the end of the article, the writer have already argued on how the fatherhood has changed nowadays.
In this age, father’s roles have different than before. Not only father has to make money but he also have to learn a lot on how to rise and take care of a child. It varies from changing a diaper to giving the time to play with his kid. …show more content…

The article on the annual Best Life Indonesia Inspiring Dad (Editor, 2014) also discussed father’s role as the leader in the family. The article argued on being the head of the family means that the father’s attitude, father’s behavior and father’s life philosophy were meant to be followed by his children. The article The Plastic Collector From North (Santana, 2014) in the It Works for Me Segment emphasized on how the figure felt the urge to be the inspiration for his children, to show them the world and pass on the values of life. The following is the fragment of the

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