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more importance than sense of values. Today so many children are shifted to absolutely unfamiliar places like Bangalore, Ooty or Dehradun where they undertake their schooling. In the pretext of giving a high level education to their children, the parents may also be possibly intending to stay a little far off and care-free from their daily responsibilities.
Residential schools which provide high level of education and the top-most of facilities do not have their mother's loving lap where they can put their head and rest. Such a school may have a Father but not the emotional bonding of their papa and this loss haunts many children. Even though they · may be growing intellectually, mentally they always have the inferiority complex that there is something lacking in them. For such children their home becomes a vacation spot. Children going to their maternal uncle's house has become an old story. Today children go to their mother's homes during their vacation.
I really pray that no parents have to go through the misery where they can afford to pay a hefty annual fee worth lakhs, but cannot afford to spare enough time for their precious child. A person who doesn't have money is poor but a person who has nothing else than money is extremely poor.
A child's true pram is his parents. Instead, when this pram becomes a huge four wheeler vehicle, then below the heavy wheels of earning material wealth and providing facilities, the poor child's childhood is crushed. Some parents are so keen to enjoy their own marital bliss that instead of finding their child a part and a purpose of their life, they see him as an obstacle to their pleasures.
Parents who cannot contain their desire to enjoy late night parties and movies, want to remain child free and
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