Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Parenting as a Profession Why Treating It Like a Career Changes Everything

3 May 2026 · 1 min

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Richard R. Ramos argues parents should apply the same professional standards they expect from lawyers and doctors to raising their kids. When we pay for a service, we demand excellence and reliability. Why should our children get less effort than we give our jobs?

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Think about it this way. I like to talk about the profession of parenting. We should look at it just like a professional. Now, if you were to hire a lawyer, a doctor, a carpenter, a plumber, a teacher, a counselor, these are professional people. And when you hire them, what do you expect? You expect excellence. You expect them to do a great job. You expect them to do what they say they're going to do. Why should our children expect anything different? Because that mindset of professionalism, we think about it only for work, and then now we become a different person out there than the person we are at home? Why should out there get our best rather than our children in our home?