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In a good marriage, all should play thier part.

Thursday, June 20, 2013


 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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