Someone once said that the best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day. A wonderful statement when looked at carefully, can somehow only be applied in the days gone by because as everyone very well know, in the present day, your time is not something your children would want to inherit when you die.
On the one hand, as a parent you do all you can and sometimes go out of your way to provide for your children that little bit of that materialistic satisfaction that your children want other than demanding that you also set aside some of your time and attention for them. Children nowadays don't live on love and attention alone. In fact they thrive on the worldly things that life, and their parent, can offer; things that seem to make them feel more alive and apart of their community; things that make them less ashamed to be a part of the community.
On the other hand, worldly possessions and love do not flow well on one-way traffic because it takes two people to make either one succeed; and more than that they require a lot of give and take. True when it comes to materialistic gains, the parent seems to be doing all the giving while the children do all the taking. It would be nice, once in a while for either situations, for the parent to be on the receiving end. After all a parent has needs too.
A parent can survive if the children in all honesty and reality cannot, or do not, give him any kind of gestures in the form of materials. However, a parent, like any normal human being will not survive if his children, after demanding that he showers them with love and attention, does not get those two things in return from them. In fact, unlike the children when they were young, a parent does not really have high maintenance. A mere whisper that he is still needed by his children will make his day. Anytime!
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