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too, which the elders are not able to contain and the kids are not able to comprehend.
Parents should understand when the children don't have the ability to understand the circumstances of the house or of the members of the house, and behave accordingly. If parents and elders of the family do not behave with enough maturity, who else will ?
A heart touching incident which occurred abroad some years ago might serve a lot here.
Once a father beat up his young daughter mercilessly. Her only fault was that she used one sheet of golden paper to make some craft item from the papers he had brought home to sell. The father was very upset because of his debts, recession and financial difficulties, so much so that he had lost the patience to listen to whatever his little daughter was trying to say.
She went off to sleep while still crying. Next day morning she had forgotten about the spanking received the previous night and went up smilingly to her father with a golden box in her hands and swollen eyes. Pappa! Happy Birthday -today is your birthday! Choked with emotions, her father accepted the box. He opened it and found it to be empty. "Why?" he quizzed. The daughter replied: "you had scolded me so much last night that I lost the courage to fill it up. But ..but..yet it is filled up. Pappa please watch it closely. The whole box is completely filled till the brim. I have kissed the box many times and given it to you. It is completely filled with my love - so much so that it can never become empty !"
Now it was the father's turn to weep. He could visualize the incident of the previous night in his mind. He was very
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