| In bringing up their children parents are prepared to sacrifice even
their very lives. For the sake of their children, they willingly face countless difficulties.Nothing makes them happier than to see their children happy. Even when their children have grown up, they watch them from afar,pretending they are not paying much attention, though in fact worrying a lot about them. When anything happens to their children, they drop everything they are doing and go to them before anyone else. Some parents occasionally scold their children, telling them they don't understand the feelings and difficulties of parents. Yet, no parents really dwell on the favors they have done for their children. They never consider that they have lost anything by devoting themselves to their children's welfare. On the contrary, they even feel satisfied by the sacrifices they have made for the sake of their children. Feeling the sincerity of their parents' concern for them, children grow up with a great sense of security. During this process they may understand the wonderfulness of parental love and they themselves then develop the same devotion to caring for others. I can't really tell whether conscience is something that people are born with instinctively, or whether it emerges through being touched by the sincerity of their parents. Whatever the case, it is certain that a healthy conscience grows in a mind filled with respect. As the saying "Like father, like son," suggests, the greater the parents, the more respect their children will have for them and the healthier the sense of conscience that the children will develop. It's a truly wonderful thing to note that usually the more the parents care for their children, the more the children will care for their parents later in life. And the more affection the parents give to their children, the more affection the children will give in return to their parents. There is no more sincere affection than parental love. It is indeed the most sincere affection, lofty enough to reach the heavens. If people can give such parental love to other people, both the givers and the receivers will grow up as humans and become the happiest of people. |