Children's Protection

Children’s Protection

If your vision is for one-year plant corn; if your vision is for ten years, plant trees; if your vision is for the whole life, plant people!

There is, unfortunately, a common belief and practice among most parents, guardians and surely us that children’s protection usually means that we need to protect them physically. Consequently, we, parents, usually tend to pay more attention to the physical part of our children’s protection forgetting that the concept of protection could be inflated more and more to cover wider areas of our children’s protection. We, parents, generation makers, need to comprehend that in order to have a well-saved, productive and dynamic generation, we need to learn, not only, how to protect our children physically, but we also need to learn how to protect them mentally and lastly but not the least emotionally.
To begin with the physical part of our children’s protection, I have no doubt that you are going to shower my ears with lots and lots of examples if I ask you for some. To cut-to-chase, we protect our children physically when we say to them, ‘don’t talk to strangers; don’t take any thing from people you don’t know; if someone asks you weird questions like - where are you parents now, how many people live in your house- run away to a place, which is crammed full with people and so on. These are some and trivial examples of how to protect our children physically.
Now, the big, million-dollar question is how can we protect our children mentally? When you control the TV control before you hand it to you child you are protecting him mentally. When you read a book before you hand it to your kid, you are protecting him/her mentally. I know that we don’t have all the time in the world to read each book before we buy or give it to a child, but at least we should try to thumb these books and check them for indecent photos or contents that don’t go with our home values and/or our teaching philosophies. Moreover, when you block certain, unsuitable sites, not for minors, on line, you are protecting your children mentally.
What about the emotional part of protection? How can we protect our children emotionally? Believe it or not, when you bring in a flower home to your spouse for an occasion between the two of you, you are protecting your kids emotionally. When there is love and affection, at home, between couples, they are spontaneously protecting their children emotionally. When a husband and a wife find themselves in a quarrel, and at once they send their kids to their rooms before they go on to shouting stage, they are protecting their kids emotionally.
For the sake of recapping, today on our way home, let’s re-do our math and profoundly think of more ways on how to protect our children not only physically but also mentally and emotionally.