re: "EQ for life" (BP, PostBag, April 14, 2022)
Dear editor,
Darius Hober makes sound points regarding the need for emotional intelligence highlighted in Atiya Achakulwisut's opinion piece "Mum's murder reveals dark side of family values", (Bangkok Post, Opinion, April 12). Also worth noting is that, yet again, Thais would appear to be following not the myths preached by those who set themselves up as the spiritual parents of the Thai family, but the actual example set by their known acts in Thai public life.
Good parents, parents with some emotional intelligence, or simple common decency, listen to their children when they come to discuss a problem causing concern. Good parents do not slap their children down with a violent act, such as locking them up for years on end merely for the peaceful expression of a desire for honest, open discussion. Good parents do not make up, let alone execute, abusive domestic laws to terrify their children into abject prostration. Good parents are nurturing, not punitive. Good parents encourage critical thinking; they do not lash out when critical thinking shows up an apparent abyss between a proclaimed myth of loving parental care and a the reality of veiled domestic relations.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on April 16, 2022, under the title "Proper parenting" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2295578/a-songkran-sacrifice
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