Thoughts on parenting!

Thoughts on parenting, quoted  from AB’s blog: http://bigb.bigadda.com/2009/02/28/day-310/#comments

“We as parents sometimes forget the importance of interaction with our children, particularly so in today’s times. It is immensely valuable to know their minds and what they think. Allowing them their moment of speech gives them not only the confidence of expression, but also their trend of thought – a most important ingredient as they grow into responsible positions. —Our culture has always taught us the importance of the care that is due to those who brought us into this world.  —For long I have resisted imposing my presence on Abhishek. The reason being Jaya’s and my desire that he must learn to fight his own battles and be able to stand on his own. That he is fulfilling this deed is commendable, but simultaneously and along with it is the strong desire to advise, to impart, to educate him with the ways of the world. Sometimes in doing so there is hesitation. Often I wonder if his reckoning be not better than mine and if this be true, would I not be perhaps misguiding him by imposing my own lopsided theory. These and other such complications crowd my mind and I keep away. But I think that is incorrect. It never harmed anyone in speaking out. You will either be corrected or followed. Both of which are beneficial.”