Children, Our Priceless Investment!
All of us are interested in making investments. In our
generation, there are even experts to guide us in making wise
investments. Most of us are go after property, house, mutual funds, so
on and so forth... But how many of us believe that children are our
priceless investments?? How can we invest in children? First and
foremost we should be concerned about the health of our children.
As the saying goes, a sound mind rests in a sound body. When we talk about caring for children, it should begin from the mother's womb. Only a mother who is physically, mentally, socially, spiritually healthy will have healthy children.
Mothers should have proper balanced diet and exercise apart from having positive thought patterns. The thought patterns of mother affect the unborn child. Spiritual habits like reading the Bible daily, spending time in prayer and meditation etc. can help mothers to remain upbeat and positive throughout their pregnancy and motherhood. Peaceful, composed, relaxed mothers can only bring forth confident, poised and well balanced children.
Throughout their childhood, parents have to ensure that the children get balanced diet and exercise to keep them active and fit. There are parents who feed children excessively out of love. That is also harmful. Over nourishment can lead to obesity, which is a fatal condition. Hence balance, is the key word which parents need to follow. The second important area is that has to be taken care of is education. Holistic education is the need of the times, when the world is full of 'educated illiterates'. Parents who concentrate only in the academic side of their wards fail miserably to produce cultured citizens of tomorrow. Imbibing values in the young child is equally important as taking care of academic side so that he or she develops as a well groomed individual, who can constructively contribute to the welfare of humanity. When we talk about children, we should also be concerned about the endless children in the streets and slum around us who are losing their childhood. Their parents are unable to take proper care of them out of poverty or ignorance.
Whatever may be the reason, it is the responsibility of the society to take care of those hapless little ones. If we can contribute to their development and welfare too, in whatever little ways we can, there is no doubt that they will turn out to be great human beings, who will make us proud one day! The shine in their eyes will bring endless blessings in our lives also
As the saying goes, a sound mind rests in a sound body. When we talk about caring for children, it should begin from the mother's womb. Only a mother who is physically, mentally, socially, spiritually healthy will have healthy children.
Mothers should have proper balanced diet and exercise apart from having positive thought patterns. The thought patterns of mother affect the unborn child. Spiritual habits like reading the Bible daily, spending time in prayer and meditation etc. can help mothers to remain upbeat and positive throughout their pregnancy and motherhood. Peaceful, composed, relaxed mothers can only bring forth confident, poised and well balanced children.
Throughout their childhood, parents have to ensure that the children get balanced diet and exercise to keep them active and fit. There are parents who feed children excessively out of love. That is also harmful. Over nourishment can lead to obesity, which is a fatal condition. Hence balance, is the key word which parents need to follow. The second important area is that has to be taken care of is education. Holistic education is the need of the times, when the world is full of 'educated illiterates'. Parents who concentrate only in the academic side of their wards fail miserably to produce cultured citizens of tomorrow. Imbibing values in the young child is equally important as taking care of academic side so that he or she develops as a well groomed individual, who can constructively contribute to the welfare of humanity. When we talk about children, we should also be concerned about the endless children in the streets and slum around us who are losing their childhood. Their parents are unable to take proper care of them out of poverty or ignorance.
Whatever may be the reason, it is the responsibility of the society to take care of those hapless little ones. If we can contribute to their development and welfare too, in whatever little ways we can, there is no doubt that they will turn out to be great human beings, who will make us proud one day! The shine in their eyes will bring endless blessings in our lives also
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