If you watch the littlest child learning how to do something, you can not help to be delighted when they finally have ‘mastered’ the challange put before them.   Once having learned ‘it’ they show there new found discovery, with excitment.

When we teach our children the values of life, we have in our minds what we deem ‘most important’!  Prayer, manners, chores, and patience.

However, deep, and thought-provoking the computer may be, it can not teach a child, rear a child, or embrace a child.

For today, we see more than ever parents directing their children to ‘things’.   All these marvelous ‘things’ advanced technological toys, and computerized books, and computer games, are interesting and entertaining to a point.   Yet, who experiences fulfillment when they have been on the computer all day?   Does the ‘spirit’ not delight in the company of another?   Even children run to their parents for ‘hugs’, rather than play with that expensive toy that they recieved for Christmas!

Experiencing the love of another through devotion, and sharing of our innermost feelings can not be equated to a new modern way of thinking!

We can not improve on values!   Values are taught, applied, and mastered!   They are not memorized, but lived; daily, and with conviction.

Values are priceless.   They teach, manners, hard work ethics, spirituality, honesty,love, forgivness,nurturing, morality, chastity, kindness, thoughtfullness, and fortitude.    The instilling of values has become obsolete, and all the, ‘me, and my needs are first’!

The children only have one childhood!  When no one is home, there are no memories!   With no memories, there is no childhood.   For a child grows and draws from the memories and values instilled in his youth.   The souls of the children are crying out to be heard!   We have lost sight to the gift of life are children are, and the joy they are into our lives.

Sirach Chapter 30 verses 9-11

9)”Pamper you child and he will be a terror for you, indulge him and he will bring you grief.   10)Share not in his frivolity lest you share in his sorrow,  when finally your teeth are clenched in remorse.   11)Give him not his own way in his youth, and close not your eyes to his follies.   12)Bend him to the yoke when he is young, thrash his sides while he is small, Lest he become stubborn, disobey you, and leave you disconsolate.   13)  Discipline your son, make heavy his yoke, lest his folly humiliate you.”