Have you discovered that your kids have become more and more
unappreciative of all the things or at least most of the things you buy for
them? Welcome to the club. Parents are working their selves to death today more
than any other time in the history of mankind and yet the children see it as no
big deal what so ever. No doubt many parents are bewildered and confused about
the situation. The scariest thing about the whole affair is that these same
kids will in two decades at most, be parents, adults and workers. Makes one
cringe at how the world will look like if something is not done now and fast to
make our kids more thankful for what they’ve got don’t you think?
Well as parents concerned about the present state of morals
in our kids, the solution is not to meet at the local P.T.A meeting, compare notes
and sulk at the situation. Certainly not- The right thing to do is to take a
proactive step with the aim of making our children much more sensitive or
appreciative of how lucky they are in the first place to come from real homes
with parents or at least a parent; who cares and provides for them. The therapy
is quite simple. Can you recall going to visit someone in an intensive care unit?
Have you ever watched a documentary of starving children in a war torn country?
No one with a heart can forget the face of a dying kid somewhere in a famished
land grasping for dear life or a patient suffering in an intensive care unit.
The images say more than any words can say. Every one comes out feeling
thankful for the life they have.
This is the experience parents must make their kids go
through not to scare the hell out of them but to make angels out of the sure
little devils that they have become for what ever reason. Take a weekend and
visit an orphanage with the kids. Before then, go shopping with them for the
presents you intend to offer the poor orphans. At the orphanage, make sure your
kids share the presents to the orphans and really interact with the orphans.
Play games with the orphans and let your kids participate, allow them see the
fact that the orphans are kids just as they are this ritual repeated from time
to time will surely make the scales fall from the eyes of your kids for certain.
Every parent wants their child to grow up to be well
mannered intelligent individuals with morals. There is a little chance that
they will be any other beside the devils they are and only such trips to
orphanages can straighten them up and make them think and appreciate the life
they have. Sooner than later as they grow older, you will realize that you have
spent money wisely by investing in such trips. You will be amazed to discover
that a trip to orphanages with your kids is as important (if not more
important) as getting child life insurance and your angels will be the better
for it- thank heaven!
Perhaps no aspect of Catholic piety is as comforting to parents as the belief that an angel protects their little ones from dangers real and imagined. angels
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