From the Chairman's Desk

Parental Love

We have always heard from our parents, that we will know what it is to be a parent only when we become one. At that juncture we gave it a passe thinking it is not some rocket science that we have to be wary of. As parents we have unconditional love for our children. We fail to realize that our parents also bad similar emodons for us as their children.

Parenting is an art to he experienced. What we do not realize is that we will also reach the stage where our parents are today. We do not send our children to orphanages if they are troublesome. However if we cannot bear our parents, we look out for old age homes. We always want to give the best to our children because they are growing and we do not want to give the same treatment to our parents because they are old. If our parents are ill, it is because they did not take care of themselves. But when it is our child, we go out of our way.

Why are we like this? If we think it is a universal problem, we need not debate at all. My opinion is that if we have to lead a healthy family life, we need to strike the balance. We have to understand that our parents are towards the last part of their lives. If we realize this, we would treat them to the best also realizing that we would be in a similar position later. In my case I have noticed my children behaving with utmost respect while interacting with their grand parents. I suppose it has been cultivated by observing the way I have treated my parents. Children always observe the way we behave with our elders. We should never forget to sympathize with our elders and help them whenever necessary.

Though we might not give a thought for this in our daily life it is very important that we care for our parents and children equally. Parental love is a puzzle.I wish to cite a classic example. The main protagonist in our story is a farmer who has an ageing father and a young son. The farmer is hard working and toils through the day to make his living. On a sunny day as the farmer is on his daily routine, the ageing father calls him aside for lunch. The farmer does not heed to the request and continues with his work. The ageing father is unable to bear that his son is working with a hungry stomach. Though, the son docs not reciprocate the same towards his father. The ageing father decides to play a trick and picks his grandson playing in the shade and puts him outside in the hot sun. That is when the farmer reacts with a fit of anger and questions bis father. The ageing father replies by quoting that each of us share the same emotion for our child.

We love our children expecting them to return the same although we forget to share it with our parents. 

Dr. Joseph V.G.,

Chairman,