Play
your roles to make a lovely home!
The sweetness
of a marriage; the joy in a marriage; the peace in a marriage; the success fulness of a marriage; all come when the parties therein play their
roles. This time I feel we should look at children and parents’ roles to the in
making a lovely home!!
Roles of children in a lovely
marriage
Children, it
is your duty to obey your parents, for it is the right thing to do. Respect
your father and mother, so that you may live a long life on earth. Children
even if your parents are meant to love you, obedience is your duty. Children
should remember what their parents teach them. They shouldn’t forget those
instructions and never to forget them; because when they follow carefully they
live longer.
King Solomon
wrote that the correct teachings should be carefully followed in a way similar
to that we protect our eyes. Following
correct principles and guidelines of life saves us from untimely deaths.
Parents get stronger attachments to children who are obedient and find it very
easy to provide for them.
When I move
through the streets, I find so many children that didn’t receive the correct
guidelines that protect them from danger. In the nights you find young girls on
the streets selling themselves as prostitutes; they go to disco halls and spend
nights there; they dress indecently; one time as I happened to move very early
at 4:00am I found ladies who were only dressed in tops which could only cover
up to the lower part of the buttocks. The boys smoke, sniff fuels like petrol
and consume alcohol.
In the nights
I believe you know it that a lot of evil goes on. Some other day I moved in the
city at about 10:00pm in the night. The street where I passed had a number of
bars where people drunk from. On the other side of it I saw a number of
prostitutes who were calling men to themselves. My attention was caught when I
saw men stopping to talk to them.
That same
day, I saw three boys who were moving together, they kept moving to and fro.
They moved into a certain corridor and then came out. Finally I saw them talking
to a prostitute. One of them agreed with her and they moved into the same
corridor. The other two boys remained outside on the street laughing! I left the street but my heart was
troubled because I don’t know whether the young man knew what he was going
into. I don’t think when their feelings have driven them, whether they think about
their health statuses at that moment.
When parents
observe such misbehavior, their hearts go so low, they get agitated and worried
for they fail to see a clear future for their children.
Role of parents in a lovely marriage
Parents do
not treat your children in such a way to make them angry. Instead bring them up
with discipline and good instruction. Parents have a very important duty to
build character in children, to feed them, shelter them, medicate, love and
cloth them.
There is
this common saying that “East or west
home is the best” because if things have failed elsewhere, the rest is
found at home. Why? At home people should understand you in and out and can
help to sooth your soul when troubled. At home you can be open to everyone
because you know them and they love you.
Sometimes
however, this peace is not experienced and children happen to distance
themselves from their parents who would have been their best friends. How does
this come to happen? I have personally seen the following things happening:-
- · Parents fighting each other.
- · Parents being very rude to children and each other
- · Parents being so busy that they find not time for their children
- · Parents thinking that to play with their children is being childish
- · Parents taking too much alcohol that they even forget to provide for their families.
The
negligence of parents to their children leads to those misbehavior already
sited although some children simply become stubborn because of peer pressures.
Finally for this
time I appeal to children to take good care of them, because the life they are
destroying is theirs and to the parents, let them be a living example; role
models whose good works can be emulated.
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