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“Child
is the father of the man” Well said ! But what is the greater
message behind this? Child is the future man. He grows up
in his family. So that's where a child shapes himself for
his future. What ever good a child imbibes is through the
family beliefs, practices and norms. |
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a family where parents are well organized, systematic
and performance oriented, a child too has the same
grooming. These family traits he follows in school
too even though he may meet children coming from
different families with diverse backgrounds. How
strong are the family bonds, will strengthen a child
towards his own grooming, convictions and performance
practices. His attitude and approach is a gift of
his family. It is in him to further renew his strengths
of family bonds.
Important point to remember is in case of weaker
family bonds, outside influences work stronger on
a child's mind. He gets confused and being vulnerable
succumbs to conveniences forgetting convictions
which are weak due to weak bonds. So much so that
he becomes a hybrid personality with mixed and unfixed
or unsettled ideas about work culture, friendship,
sense of right and wrong and even the power of self
decision is low. |
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exactly are the family bonds that are so helpful
to serve as a support to a child in his right thinking?
Family bonds are built through togetherness - spending
time together whether for praying, eating, or even
just sitting together and chatting. All this gives
a child a sense of being anchored to his family
as well as family traditions, culture and beliefs.
Thus he grows to be a person with his own logic,
for thinking and deciding the guidelines come from
the family culture.
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| Today's
nuclear family system has deprived the children
getting from wisdom of senior members of family
like grand parents. Even the parents can play a
great role. All they need is time to devote for
“bonding”. But the sad situation is that the present
generation parents are over-occupied in “their”
activities of personal pleasures, own friends and
pursuits of money for flaunting elite style. The
servants or crèches have substituted parents.
Therefore the growth of a child is in the midst
of very “low” or “limited” culture servants in place
of their own parents. In case of rich families the
situation is worse the child is thrown in a “luxury”
boarding school, may be with an international tag.
The child too imbibes the same “self-oriented” attitude
of parents with low cultural grooming and along
with that he is exposed to mixed mischief culture
of “little devils” from various backgrounds. The
“TV” cartoons and shows thus complete the damage.
With such state of affairs things are going to slide
to the “worst”. It is therefore timely to sound
warning bells to new parents that for the future
generation to be loving and talented not greedy
and selfish, the family culture has to be restored,
reinvented to make the next generation grow with
right emotions and values unlike the current generation
which is already halfway on its spoiling spree and
degeneration. |
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