I was talking to some children today and I asked them what do the do if someone offends them. They started shouting we offend him back. Then I asked them what if someone hits them? Again, they replied, we hit him back. The children I’ve been talking to are 12 and 13 years old. When I was that old (I’m still young, I am 23 years old), we weren’t fighting at school, we weren’t talking badly about each other… we were full of tricks, but they were harmless for people around us and for society. We had innocent but funny tricks. Now days can just a wrong look bring fights and misunderstandings. Wars between children are more and more frequent.
Did you ever think about that?
It is time you do and you know why? Because it is in over power to say to children what is right and what is wrong. We can tell them that they shouldn’t return evil for evil, but they should do good to every person around them! Even when someone offends us, we should just go away or forgive him. Never revenge back! This will only start a never ending fight.
Besides teaching children how to behave it is very important that they can see an example in us. We must behave like we are teaching them!
I was one listening to a life story of one recurred drug addict and what he said: “when I was younger, my father told me not to smoke and while he was telling me that he was smoking a cigarette”. He wasn’t able to be a good example to his child. Nobody is perfect, but if we’ll continue living like we are and children will be so miserable like they are now, world won’t survive!
So, be a good example for anybody – young or old, parents or children, classmates or teachers, co-workers or bosses… it doesn’t matter in which relationship as long as you do your best! Jesus said that we have to love our enemies and that is what we should do. Btw: enemy is anyone who offends us and we want to revenge him back! This could be our little brother that eats last cookie or mother that want us to clean our room when we would rather play games on computer.
Think about it…
Have nice day. More tomorrow…
Did you ever think about that?
It is time you do and you know why? Because it is in over power to say to children what is right and what is wrong. We can tell them that they shouldn’t return evil for evil, but they should do good to every person around them! Even when someone offends us, we should just go away or forgive him. Never revenge back! This will only start a never ending fight.
Besides teaching children how to behave it is very important that they can see an example in us. We must behave like we are teaching them!
I was one listening to a life story of one recurred drug addict and what he said: “when I was younger, my father told me not to smoke and while he was telling me that he was smoking a cigarette”. He wasn’t able to be a good example to his child. Nobody is perfect, but if we’ll continue living like we are and children will be so miserable like they are now, world won’t survive!
So, be a good example for anybody – young or old, parents or children, classmates or teachers, co-workers or bosses… it doesn’t matter in which relationship as long as you do your best! Jesus said that we have to love our enemies and that is what we should do. Btw: enemy is anyone who offends us and we want to revenge him back! This could be our little brother that eats last cookie or mother that want us to clean our room when we would rather play games on computer.
Think about it…
Have nice day. More tomorrow…
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