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all efforts fail. Instead parents are a ready reckoner for their children at every stage of their life.
During their young age there are many stages when children need the emotional support and encouragement from their parents. Sometimes they may have had a fight with an old friend and their friendship may have broken and they may be upset. They may also be depressed due to disappointing results, resulting in all their fees being wasted and hours of efforts going down the drain. Due to ignorance, anger or excitement they may have committed some errors and are very ashamed of themselves. These are the moments when they need to rebuild their goals and need your emotional support and affection.
Mother is a symbol of emotional support and father is a symbol of encouragement. Someone has said very correctly:" the mother is a person who gives her lap and the father is a person who gives his shoulder“. An emotional support from the mother helps the child to overcome a mountain of miseries. A little bit of encouragement helps the child to overcome his boredom by destroying his loneliness and depression.
"Your Tommy is not capable of completing his studies. Don't send him to school from tomorrow”. When the child came home crying with this note, his mother put her hand lovingly on his head and consoled him thus : “How does the school-teacher know whether my child can learn or not? Don't worry ! From tomorrow onwards I will teach you at home”. That child studied at home only and going forward went on to become none other than renowned and learned scientist Thomas Alva Edison ! Just imagine what could have happened if, after reading his teacher's note, his mother had scolded
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