Loving children and respecting them by listening to them is the greatest gift we shall ever bestow upon them

The other day I was re reading the famous write up by the poet Kahlil Gibran on children...I had already written it  in my diary...A few observations and comment from memory:

Children are not your children.True, they came through you, they are with you,they are like consumer goods when they are young and they enrich your life with their love, innocence and intelligence.They make you remember your own younger days, the forgotten golden days of your life.And yet they do not belong to you.They are not possessions like property..yes in a sense,they are more like investments,giving protective economic umbrella to parents especially when they do not have any post retirement benefits..There are countries now which impose conditions that grown up children should take care of the aged parents.

Children belong to the future.Their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow.They are the symbol of Power and beauty,adding more colours and festivity.Without them the house will not be home and the marriage boat is sometimes anchored well and does not get tossed or turned by stormy weather in their presence and fragrance.

So dear fellow parents,you can't behave like boss in the office and make a mess of their life by injecting your thought process into their mind and make them to live  a life which you desired but failed to do because it was beyond your reach.

You behave sensibily and more responsibly and try your level best to be an ideal role model.If they are convinced  with  your approach and atitude will be a good guidance they will emulate by seeing without any goading from your  side.

As argumentative humans, children should become anti authority and anti establishment and must merge as crusaders for change.

I love the children of the world..Many are deprived, without food on the table,and the tables are not also there because there is no shelter for them.without job and income their parents are unable to give them education and food and make their life free from misery...

Governments have a role to play to take care of them by  fine tuning policies from the corporate friendly concerns and  show a demonstrable evidence that they will be people centric in a typical Marxist perspective.