Teach your children only Love, for that is what you are. Your child will only be in large measure what you are and who you are! So you owe it to yourself and to your child/children to develop your own personal life: Heal your memories, forgive everyone in your life, including yourself. Cultivate a positive outlook. Nurture yourself in everyway.
Children are an expression of your love! Love them by giving them what they need, not what they want. Spend quality time with your children. Do not fill their lives with toys. Toys can never replace your love. Respect them as persons, do not treat them as so much furniture. Children are like wet cement; the impression you make on them when they are young, stays with them for life. Be honest to them and about them. Have atleast one meal a day as a family; "A family that eats together, stays together." Similarly I'd say, "A hug in time saves nine." Be affectionate without being possessive. Finally be supportive to the child, do not expect the child to fullfil your needs.
Let me quote Mother Teresa of happy memory, "I think today the world is upside down, and is suffering so much because there is so very little love in the home and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other, there IS No Time to enjoy each other."
Teach your Children Only Love, for that is what YOU ARE. I hope you honestly believe that you are an embodiment of LOVE! All religions teach us that God is Love. If we emanated from God then we can be no less. A simpler idea to start with, and perhaps more acceptable, is that we are all born beautiful. Only somewhere down the road we seem to have forgotten that. Let us not blame our parents, even as our children may do the same to us. Louise Hay in her book, “You can heal your life” says, “we are all victims of victims”. The only way to break that cycle is to forgive everyone in your life including yourself and begin to love and appreciate yourself. Thus you will begin a whole new relationship with all those around you.
We are LOVE Incarnate. Love has no choice but to reach out. Simply because Love is not love, until it expresses itself in myriad ways. Just as the Infinite expresses itself through each one of us, let each one of us in turn create a world of peace, harmony, brotherhood and sisterhood by reaching out to each other.
Children are an expression of your love! Love them by giving them what they need, not what they want. Spend quality time with your children. Do not fill their lives with toys. Toys can never replace your love. Respect them as persons, do not treat them as so much furniture. Children are like wet cement; the impression you make on them when they are young, stays with them for life. Be honest to them and about them. Have atleast one meal a day as a family; "A family that eats together, stays together." Similarly I'd say, "A hug in time saves nine." Be affectionate without being possessive. Finally be supportive to the child, do not expect the child to fullfil your needs.
Let me quote Mother Teresa of happy memory, "I think today the world is upside down, and is suffering so much because there is so very little love in the home and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other, there IS No Time to enjoy each other."
Teach your Children Only Love, for that is what YOU ARE. I hope you honestly believe that you are an embodiment of LOVE! All religions teach us that God is Love. If we emanated from God then we can be no less. A simpler idea to start with, and perhaps more acceptable, is that we are all born beautiful. Only somewhere down the road we seem to have forgotten that. Let us not blame our parents, even as our children may do the same to us. Louise Hay in her book, “You can heal your life” says, “we are all victims of victims”. The only way to break that cycle is to forgive everyone in your life including yourself and begin to love and appreciate yourself. Thus you will begin a whole new relationship with all those around you.
We are LOVE Incarnate. Love has no choice but to reach out. Simply because Love is not love, until it expresses itself in myriad ways. Just as the Infinite expresses itself through each one of us, let each one of us in turn create a world of peace, harmony, brotherhood and sisterhood by reaching out to each other.