Bringing our offspring into this world doesn't end our responsibility rather increases our challenge of taking care of another human being who is extremely delicate, young, small, vulnerable and fragile. This responsibility spreads over different dimensions of this new human in this world for example: responsibility to take care of his/her body, health, mind and his or her whole personality. Hence, its not an easy job rather the most difficult job in this world. Each parent is awarded different role however, both have to share and work together as mother and father of the child whom they have brought into this world with their mutual love.
This is one of the most unique kind of relationship between parents and children which compliments each other as a family the foundation of each society at large. Children depend upon their parents for their fundamental needs and parents need love from their children and keep feeling happy and proud watching their children growing in front of their eyes day by day.
Usually we as parents out of our love and emotions we keep providing everything to our children without teaching them the value of things and money in life. We as parents love to provide them all the comforts of life but forget to tell them how these things have reached to them? Who is working hard behind all these comforts? How much these things cost them? Why are we spending so much money on raising the standard of living for our children? etc etc.......
On the contrary, we never realize and understand to teach our children not to take things for granted in life. We as parents forget to tell our children that the hard earned money will not prove useful unless we teach and train our children how to value money in life and create a balance.
Unfortunately, majority of parents consider that things can compensate their love, care and attention towards their children. Therefore, they keep providing their children with expensive gifts, comfortable rooms, toys, dresses and much more. But they forget to give time to their children which their children actually want and expect from them.
Eventually, when these children grow up they expect each and every comfort to be given to them without paying for it in life. They turn out to be irresponsible and care free type of individuals in life. They have no respect for hard work and effort nor they give any value to money rather they believe that all money and everything in life is their own property and they even have the right to abuse it.
Today we can see large number of such people around us and they are the outcomes of such type of irresponsible grooming done by their parents who kept on providing them everything before the right time for it has come. For example, giving a car to a young boy without telling him that first he should prepare to earn for himself and then buy it with his own money it would teach him/her that nothing is free lunch in life. He has to work hard to buy that car for himself. If he buys that car with his own money he will be more careful and responsible in taking care of that car because it belongs to him.
This attitude will eventually gives him more confidence and a sense of responsibility towards life. He or she will feel more satisfied and more independent towards their own earnings and expenditures too. Such child will be more thankful towards his/her parents and love them more of showing them the right way of spending in life.
We have to reflect on our roles as parents and try to figure out where we are going wrong in delivering our responsibilities towards our children. These children are not just our children they are an asset of our society and the future generation in this world. Lets prepare and develop responsible, careful and grateful human beings for tomorrow.
