Now, society is no longer what it once was. Children now shout vulgarities at their caregivers, hate their parents for not buying them a toy, and rich tycoons dump their aged parents in the nursing home. Whose fault? This is a topic without a clear answer, but I think it is partly because of the parents.
Parents now lead busy hectic lives where they work their heads off to earn money. Their little vulnerable and young kid is left to the hands of the family maid. This is a wrong decision. Firstly, maids usually just let the kid watch cartoons and the young one is not taught to be selective. Sometimes, shows have swear words and show wrong values(infidelity, betrayal). As it is commonly acknowledged,parents are the child"s first teachers. By entrusting the child to the maid, and by letting the child watch TV, the goggle box becomes his teacher. This is the beginning of waywardness.
Secondly, when a child is young, it is the best time to impart values in him, because it is too late when the child has had a wrong set of values in him. He will not change easily.
Thirdly, parents should give more than the ability to buy things-money. It imparts materialism into him. Parents should instead give their time and their love so that he will be nurtured in thde right way and will not go astray. Maybe this illustration says it all.
A man brought his elderly father and his son out one day. He drove to the nursing home and there, he put his aged father. When they left, his son said, "Daddy, thank you for teaching me a valuable lesson. When you grow old next time, I know where to put you."
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wow what an awe inspiring post !!!yes i certainly agree that we should have the right values when we are young and we should take care of our children and parents when we grow up.
ReplyDeleteThis is extremely fantastic. I agree that children are the easiest to teach, as they are like a blank piece of paper, without anything written on them. Parents must write correct things on them and by showing good examples, they are doing that. The last part of the post, which is the story, makes logical sense. I completely disagree with the man's action. He should take care of his father. Anyway, thanks for the post!
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This is seriously the bet post I had seen before I really liked the part,"A man brought his elderly father and his son out one day. He drove to the nursing home and there, he put his aged father. When they left, his son said, "Daddy, thank you for teaching me a valuable lesson. When you grow old next time, I know where to put you." It taught me a valuable lesson that if we want our children to respect us and be filial to us, we must certainly set a very good example to them by being filial to our own parents. I also like that Timothy had mentioned that parents should care more and spend more time with their parents. There were ,any successful businessmen,however their children were not as successful as them and some of them even gone astray and start dealing with illegal activities like taking drugs, glue-sniffing, etc. Why would this happen, just like what Timothy had said, parents did not spend time with their children and so they did not have the chance to impart correct values into them. Anyway, a really remarkable post!
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