Parents have to change from the quality of selfishness to the quality of love of others. Parents need to seek to benefit others (their partners and especially their children) instead of seeking to benefit themselves.
Benefiting others doesn't mean making others happy. It means doing what's good for them.
Unfortunately today, many parents have put their children in daycare while they work long hours away from home. By the time they get home, they're exhausted. They have no time or energy for their children and the little time they spend together is rushed.
Putting children in daycare is not the answer. Having someone else raise your children, while you sell your time and energy to someone else is not the right way.
Many parents feel obligated to work in order to make money for the family and have a comfortable standard of living.
Yet children need their parents. They don't need fancy houses or fancy cars, they need time with their loving parents. There is no better substitute.
Parents need to make the necessary arrangements, changes their lives, simplify their lives, scale back, switch jobs, work part time, do whatever it takes to spend more time with their children.
Parents need to prioritize their children and prioritize their role as parents. Remember, children are the future generation. How they are raised by their parents affects the whole world.
Parents need to:
1. Prioritize their role as parents and take full responsibility for raising their children
2. Make arrangements in their lives to work less and spend more time with their children
3. Understand that children need their parents, there is no better substitute
4. Stop putting their children in daycare and raise their children themselves
5. Set examples for their children on how to benefit other
6. Teach their children how to benefit others
7. Support the lessons their children learn at school on how to benefit others
8. Understand that how they raise their children affects the whole world
9. Teach their children skills around the home, so they can use them to benefit others
Parents need to change from selfishness to love of others and they need to teach their children the principles of mutual guarantee, how to benefit others.
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