ISSUE # 1
How Parents Affect
Children?
- Jayashri Shetty
Parents’ relationship with
their children should be
one of mutual understanding and
love, ensuring that children do not
cross that fine line of respect for their
parents. For this parents must lead
exemplary lives themselves. Honesty,
integrity and good character can
never be taught to children. It should
be imbibed. This can be done only if
parents
possess
these
traits
themselves.
Bickering and fighting amongst
parents in the presence of their
children must be avoided at all costs.
This causes mental anxiety in the
children. Parents must rather resolve
their
differences
through
compromise or through proper
dialogue and set an example for their
children. Parents must also spend
quality time with their children. They
must encourage their children to
open up and speak to them on all
issues- good and bad. Opinions must
be shared and not thrust down on
them. Children mostly learn from
mistakes rather than from advice.
Times are changing and pressures of
different kinds are mounting on
today’s younger generation. Parents
must understand and move with the
times. Parents must be aware of the
company their children keep. While
most children do not discuss their
friends with parents, the latter can
always keep an eye on their children’s
social networking sites like Orkut and
Facebook and form opinions based
on the language used there or the
subjects being discussed. Children in
such cases must not be confronted
but advised on the need to keep
proper company.
The Strength Lies Within You
Razia Garikipati
What are you? Are you a doctor, an
engineer,
a
carpenter,
an
entrepreneur or a salesman? Are
you what you are or are you what
someone else wanted you to be?
Were you forced by a family member
into accepting their choices for you?
The strength lies within you. To live
you, to talk you, to walk you and to
BE YOU!
you were suppressed beyond
degree. You wanted to run; you
were made to walk slow. You
wanted to walk slow; you were asked
to race with horses. WHERE ARE
YOU? Your identity was lost, you
remained lost in the crowd. The
result – you were not allowed to be
YOU. You became someone else.
Destiny is mocked by being what you
are not.
You wanted to be a wild lion; you
were made a quiet cat. You wanted
to voice out your thoughts aloud;
Be You! Live life so that when you
look back, all you can see are
beautiful memories.
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