WHAT SHOULD PARENTS GIVE …

A few children saw a beautiful butterfly struggling to get out of its cocoon.  In their kindness, they cut the cocoon and set the butterfly free only to find it dead within a few moments.  Its wings did not enough to help it fly.  It was the struggle that strengthened the wings !

Parents sometimes become like these ignorant children – they take away the struggle from their children and make them weaklings..  the mother walking to the bus stop with two backpacks and two young children in tow, the other shouting at the school teacher  for her child’s poor performance, yet another one running from activity to activity, looking for the best tuition teacher and changing her/him soon as the child’s performance goes down, telling the school why  it cannot teach something because his or her child finds it tough – all these, may be more are classic examples . 

Such parents are missing two things in life

 – good, strong children that can stand on their own and look after them in their twilight years

-          The joy of achievement.

Nothing can take the place of the glow of  pride on the face of a father or mother who  has walked like a safety net behind a struggling child.