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politeness, manners and way of respecting all is due to my family. All the members of my family behave with eachother this way.” It came to my knowledge that this message should be conveyed to whole the world that if the atmosphere of your family is good, the manners of your children will certainly be good. If a quarreling takes place at home, the child will also learn quarreling. If smoking takes place at home, the children will also learn smoking. But if all the family members offer respects and behave affectionately to each-other, the children will also follow the same. Our family is a reflection of us. As we are, so will our children be.
Family is a reflection of religion and society. It is the backbone of every society and nation. If your family is happier one, it will please and appeal to all. The morning when the children pay their respects to their parents and the brothers embrace each-other, that morning makes a festive atmosphere of Id-ul-Juha. The afternoon when the brothers dine in a same dish together, turns that afternoon into a festival of Holi. The family where the old parents are served and given respects at night before sleeping and taken their blessings, where the parents teach their children and keep on sharing their weal and woe, there even the black nights turn into the festival of Deepawali. My dear, those who do not know how to pass the life properly, celebrate the festivals once, twice or thrice in a year otherwise we can enjoy the pleasure of these festivals every day at any occasion.
A family will remain heaven till you embrace each-other and behave affectionately with all. We should live happily. We go to the astrologers and ask about our problems. My dear, if these forecasters tell us that our astrological calculation is proper, who will pay them fee so they guide us to put one precious stones on various fingers and assure us
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