Daily Meditation: Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Education - teaching children to respect laws

03/03/2010

It is necessary for parents and teachers to be firm with children; otherwise, the children will take advantage of their indulgence or weakness, and it won't be their fault. If nobody shows a child there are rules to be respected, if from a very young age a child is under the impression they can bend everything to their whims, how do you expect them to obey the great laws of nature later on? They will not obey, which is only natural. They will want to confront everything, break everything, lose themselves even, anything rather than give in. Because that is how they have been brought up, so they are not the ones to blame. Parents, therefore, need to be vigilant and not want to spare their children all the little lessons likely to set them thinking. They will cry a little, they will be comforted, but they will have understood, and for the rest of their life they will know there are laws to be respected.