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To what extent are parents responsible for the degradation of values

among children?

 

My opinion is that parents are soley responsible for spoiling

children. Many parents behave like Dhritarashtra, the blind king of

the Mahabharata. He never opposed or prevented his sons, the

Kauravas, from doing any type of mischief, or misdeed. What happened

to the king at the end? He was left with none to perform even his

last rites or obsequies, though he had as many as a hundred sons. He

ruined himself completely. Why? It was only his attachment to his

sons that brought about his fall. The whole clan fell into disrepute

due to his attachment.

 

It appears as though modern parents do not know how to bring up their

children. As the son watches the T.V., the mother brings food from

the kitchen, and serves it there. Keeping the plate in front of the

T.V., the parents don't teach them good manners and good behaviour.

One with good manners is a man. The one with discipline is a devotee.

The rest are only children.

 

Parents constantly think of career-oriented and highly promising

education with prospects of going abroad. They want their children to

settle in big positions, earn money, go abroad, and marry rich women

and so on.

 

There is also another category of parents. When their children by

chance go to a temple, they prevent them saying, " Are you going to

the temple now? Why, at this age? You are very young. Should you be

so religious at your age? You can be so after sixty. " Sometimes you

also come across a father who asks his son to tell everyone who comes

to see him that he is not home. What do you expect the son to learn

from such a father?

 

In the modern age there are many children who are not fortunate

enough to be brought up by the loving, sweet, and tender care of

their mothers! Mothers are busy with their avocations, and spend

their time in ladies clubs, in the market place, shopping, visiting

friends, and so on and so forth, with the result that a child weeps

only when the servant-maid dies and not when its own mother is lost.

Why? The reason is that children haven't known the love of a mother,

only that of a servant-maid. This is the shameful situation today.

 

Who made emperor Sivaji great? Who made Gandhi a Mahatma? It is only

his mother. It is entirely the responsibility of parents to mould

their children into ideal citizens. If a girl is spoiled, the mother

has to be blamed. If a boy is spoiled, the father must be held

responsible. Parents should shape children in such a way as to win

the appreciation of everyone. They should get a good name for their

schools, society and country in general.