Day 247 of wisdom
“You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
Khalil Gibran
A photocopying (reproduction) machine receives whatever is being put into it in prints or writing and brings it out exactly the way it is on the original. The machine itself has nothing to produce as an output, because it is absolutely blank. Children are like a reproduction machine, at birth, they are blank minded and without ideas, they only do what is most convenient and natural to them, cry and sleep. They gradually begin to do things they are being forced, shown, or taught to do, like suck, smile, laugh, eat, crawl, walk, and so on, until they become full grown.
Every parent want their children to be good people who will bring to them, peace and pride, but most of them have failed to realize that, whatever their children will become is up to them. Children most often become replica of their parents, this happens not necessarily intentionally, but because their blank minds was filled with what they saw their parents do, and not just what they say. Like James Baldwin said, “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
The mirror of every child are their parents, so, you have to live out the kind of life you expect your children to live. Whatever you give out to them by example, you see in them. Alexandre Dumas also said, "Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more." rather than instruct children on what to do, live by what you expect them to do, and you don't need to tell them anything more.
The future of any nation are the children of that nation, every nation that expects to have a great future must invest adequately in her children, she must take responsibility for building, and raising children of good character, and attitude, because without these (character and attitude) there is no guarantee for a peaceful, and prideful future.
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