Life has substantially diverse & different in this modern age due to various reasons. People remain occupied due to their daily life routines, as compared to life in past. Similarly, in this modern age concepts of family orientation and parenting has changed significantly too. Lets share the story of our modern days parenting concept, and focus whether what we are doing is really important and worthwhile, or we are just wasting our precious time on wrongdoings.
Sarah is a working mother of two young children. She works for an IT company, and serves at a senior position. Her office is almost half an hour drive away from her home. She uses high quality, and most modern devices to remain connected with her projects. Her husband is a banker. Both of them are high end earners, but unfortunately they hardly find time for their beautiful children, because both of them return home in late hours in evening, and even after reaching home, they sometimes have to complete tasks as well.
Sarah's husband is usually on travel, due to his job requirement. Therefore, their children keep waiting for their parents to pay attention to their needs. But whenever they reach out to their parents, they are either busy, away or speaking on their mobile phones, or doing work on their laptops. Hence, this makes their children feel lonely, sad, and sometimes neglected by their parents. The family hardly finds any time to sit, enjoy and share together. However, both parents try quite hard to compensate their absence by purchasing expensive clothes, toys and other such things for their children, but fail to fulfill the hallmarks of good parenting.
Since Sarah is quite social, so she has various friends in her neighborhood as well. Aliya is one of those friends from neighbors. Aliya's family seems quite connected with each other, since the mother does a part time job, but prefers to stay at home, and spends time with her young children. Aliya's husband works with Sarah in her company, at a senior position. Sarah sometimes envy Aliya, that how come she remains so happy, without any career, by being just staying at home mother.
One day Sarah approached Aliya's husband in his office, and asked him that how come, they are a happy family and so connected with each other. He told Sarah that although his wife is a doctor, but she prefers to work from home, in order to spend most of her time with her children at this vulnerable age, to pay attention to their developmental needs, and inculcate good moral values into her children to turn them into good human beings. He also told Sarah that they take dinner together every evening, help their children with their school work, and prioritize to spend time with their children.
After listening to his colleague's family story, Sarah decided to change this arrangement for the sake of her children. She requested her boss to give her another home based position, so she could be available at home for her children most of the time. Next, she convinced her husband to minimize his travel and try to spend time with his family. This change has brought lots of extra benefits for them, for example, fresh and healthy food, clean and organized home, happy and healthy children with high achieving grades in school, lot of family engagement and much more.
Love and relationships are most valuable part of our life. If we lose them, we lose everything in life. People are important, not things. Unfortunately, we run after material things to get happiness, but happiness and contentment has no connection with things, it has true and solid connection with our humanity.
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