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give lessons where his emotions get paralyzed, you are actually cutting the wings of growth of your own child. Slow poison is reactive for a longer time.
In terms of development, more attention is paid to physical development than mental development and greater significance is given to acquiring knowledge than to nurture emotional development. Parents are happy if their children obtain knowledge about animals by visiting zoos or seeing Discovery channel. Can you not take your child to an animal sanctuary or a veterinary hospital and teach him how to take care of animals and treat them when sick ? By this experiment, compassion and tenderness spontaneously awakens in the child's heart.
Many parents use the television for baby-sitting. If the small child does not eat, the mother feeds him in front of the television set ( though in many cases under the pretext of feeding the child, the mother fulfills her own addiction towards the television ).
"If the child sits in front of the television and eats, he will finish eating each morsel faster and the mother will also be freed". This is the mentality which is at work. The mother does not realize that alongwith the food that is fed , the child's mind is also getting mal-nourished.
The child's mind is very receptive. Alongwith the food that he takes, his receptivity is at work and with each morsel that he eats, he also absorbs the image that is being shown on the television and this vision makes an imprint on his character. This invisible intake is not noticed immediately but it's effect will definitely be seen, if not immediately then in the future when it will be difficult to rectify. As a result the
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