On the Role of Parents

Children need time to play and excercise creativity. They need support from their parents in this process of self discovery and awareness of the world. They don't need mobile phones, designer clothes, trips and fancy toys to reassure them of parental love.

Likewise, a youth needs to discover that privilege and rights come with responsibilities.They need support to understand that study encompasses prospects. They need to understand causality and consequence. They don't need self-discovery trips, fancy cars and new gadgets.

What parents must realise is that their role in an insane world is one of austerity and example, sanity and common sense. Alas, this same sense of responsibility falls prey to the "pressures of modern life". The decision to give your child what he/she needs comes with the inescapable criticism of those who choose career and convenience over responsibility, as does the decision to build your life around virtue and conscience as opposed to possession and vanity.

Good parents must show conviction simply by keeping true to their choice to become parents.

Relativity may be great in Physics, but Relativism is murder on Moral Ethics.