1. The Parent-Child Relationship # 1

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Meditation for Beginners

 

1. The Parent-Child Relationship # 1

 

 

I will help my parents to do their work

The first and most important factor in influencing social development is the quality of the relationship between parents and their children. The quality of the relationship between parent and child is measured in measured in terms of fulfillment of reciprocal responsibilities.

 

 

have been supported by my parents- I will support them in turn

A child’s responsibilities to his parents

A child should show his responsibility to his parents by reminding himself:

1. “I have been supported by my parents- I will support them in turn” (such a recollection helps the cultivation of positive core values);

2. “I will help my parents to do their work” (such a recollection helps the cultivation of patience, responsibility, knowledge and ability);

3. “I will keep up the honour and traditions of the family”;

4. “I will make myself worthy of my heritage” (such a recollection helps one to extricate oneself from the Six Roads to Ruin);

5. “I will make offerings, dedicating merit to them even after their death” (such a recollection helps the cultivation of positive core values and responsibility).

 

 

I will keep up the honour and traditions of the family

Such recollections will not come easily to any child who has not been raised with self-discipline, responsibility and positive core values. Thus the degree of filial piety a child exhibits is largely in proportion to the care taken by the parent to bring him or her up properly.

 

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