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children will learn to ignore both of you. Therefore, make your family atmosphere proper; do not let quarrelling affairs take place. If you are habitual to use abusing words, give up this habit right now else your children will use the same even before you. I feel the condition is very declining and if it is not cared well, the children will certainly spoil their life. The children grasp everything good or bad very quickly. If you are addicted to anything, your children will also get addicted to many other things. One day I heard an abusing phrase from one of the children. I found he looked belonging to a cultured family yet he was abusing. I called him to me. He was frightened of scolding. I told him to come to me and assured not to fear. But I had to ask whether his father used to abuse. And for my surprise, he replied positively.
If the roots of a tree are infected, the fruits of it will surely be infected then who should be blamed for? We all are responsible for the bad habits of children. A father, who smokes cigarettes, causes to bring the cigarette packets by his children from the market. Even a smoking father makes his child to smoke and when he begins coughing, they laugh together. In the parties of the rich, children also participate and are forced to drink wine and thus they get addicted to wine. At home, playing cards are played by all the family members with children. During parties, if the phone bell rings, ladies go to attend the phones and tell their children to continue the party by playing the cards. What all this is happening? We ourselves are pushing our children to the flames of fire and when the matter is out of control, the children are blamed. We never look into our own conscience that this all has happened because of us only. Therefore be cautious and improve the worse condition of the family well in time.
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