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everything and it is not required also. To protect the parents' undisputed right to advise and to ensure that their guidance is appreciated by their children, parents also need to ensure that their counseling doesn't become an overdose.
Rains are required to grow the crops in the fields but they prove to be useful only if they fall in the right measure and at the right time. Excess rains have no limit on volumes. Unseasonal rainfall is of no use even if it is within limits because it does not fall at the right time.
Children are also like the fertile land. Harvests of great successes and talents can be nurtured here. For that, appropriate measure of manure and water need to be provided alongwith the expectation of a good rainfall, but due to the following two types of excessive rains, this land is only wiped out :
1. Torrent of advise 2. Flood of admonitions
What sugar and spice is to food, advice and reprisals is to a child's growth and development. Too much sugar also leaves a bad taste in the mouth and too much spice burns the mouth. Just guage the child's experience from your own experience.
Advice given seldom has a higher degree of acceptance. The lesser the words used for advice, the higher is it's impact. Instead of stretching the same point again and again, short and sweet is more than much.
There is a big difference between reproaching and grumbling, like the difference between the hours hand and the minute's hand in the clock. The sound of the hour hand is
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