Provide love care and security to children, rather than worry about their overload.
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TAKING CARE OF CHILDREN The thoughts of saving children too much work, That psychologists so often display, Are really born of guilty conscience Than a new crisis arisen today. When couples live in oftener than wedded And broken families are so rampant, It’s natural that children would harbour A high degree of stress and discontent. Why confuse mental stress with overload? Why underestimate the children’s brain? Even though their minds are fertile, yet they In stressful environment cannot gain. The psychologists need to attend to The causes of child neglect and abuse By parents and adults in many homes. Psychological theories are no use. Ensure that each child has a secure home Where he may be loved and cared as a child. Then the children will take care of themselves And we would not need any theories wild. * Written in reference to an article in the “World in Brief” section of the Lawrence Journal World, September 29, 2008 edition, which concludes that as per recent research, the children are not really overscheduled and, probably, it is their parents who are on overload. M C Gupta 29 September 2008 |