We go through many stops while raising our children, we try to implant fine values in their hearts in order to have children who hold themselves to high standards which help them live up to and arrive at true human sophistication.
In every stop we encounter resources that can inspire us, give us thoughts and teach us countless methods to achieve what we want in terms of educating our children and communicating refined values to them. Those multiple resources facilitate our search for any information we may need, one can simply press a button on the keyboard before him and receive incalculable amount of information on the values he wants to plant in his children's hearts. In addition to the availability of numerous other sources such as libraries, journals, newspapers, satellite channels and many more which are now made easily accessible to all.
The question remains directed at us parents, especially to those of us who continuously express frustration and statements of failure to adequately raise their children and implant refined values in them, despite access to all the above mentioned resources. Why were some of us unable to achieve good results despite all effort made? And why were some of us able to?
It is vital that we take note of the other dimension of the beautiful path that has the greatest impact on our children, the path of leading by example. Do we lead by example when we want to implant certain values in our children? Did we determine the change needed and started paving the way towards it? Are we there yet? Did we determine the change we need and started it or do some of us believe that it is too late, and that they are already set in their ways?
We hear about fathers who have acquired the habit of lying to their children, but become angry, when their children are dishonest with them. We also hear about people irritated when their children break promises made to them while they have broken so many themselves.
When asked "why do you forbid your child to do something you are doing?" their answer would be "If I am doing something wrong, should I allow my child to make the same mistake? Of course not" Not taking into account that the example they set is a strong mental image burned in the minds of their children.
Most of us are used to pausing at those stops and making use of the available resources. We acknowledge their importance, we however emphasis the need to set a radiant example in relation to us parents in order to facilitate the creation of a generation that holds refined values that enable it to change the world and make it a better place to live in peace.
