| An old saying goes that "women are weak, but mothers are strong." This refers to the wholehearted desire of mothers who constantly desire the safety and happiness of their children. As their children are the ones they are most interested in, mothers always listen to whatever their children say. Better than anyone, mothers know what's on their children's minds. However far away they are from each other, children always live in their mothers' hearts and live together with them there. In their minds mothers always murmur to their children, "Never give up! Never give up!" I would say that this is as if mothers are sending powerful electric waves. Receiving the love of mothers, children form their personalities. Children acquire sincerity and a conscience as a result of learning them from their parents. Children who have received their parents' deep affection will in turn convert it and exhaust it in themselves for the sake of other people and the whole society. I would like to believe that children who receive sufficient love from their parents within 50 days of their birth may continue for the rest of their lives to have enough sincerity to penetrate even a rock after being converted into several tens of times more energy. However, parents should be careful that if they are so affectionate that their children become excessively dependent, their affection might have the reverse effect than that intended. Children must be able to cultivate the essential qualities of mature human beings more through parental education that teaches sincerity and fosters a conscience than through education at school. I would say that society has no blame, but that the behavior of parents makes society better or worse. |