Unconditional
Love
Every mother and father will unequivocally agree
that the most important thing parents can give their children is love. However
an essential matter should be appropriately considered. Does this mean
unconditional love? That is, just giving everything a child wants without any
restraint or set of parameters to learn and follow?
Oftentimes, parents ask themselves this question. Do
we need to discipline the children whom we dearly love? For most if not all of
us, children are precious gifts from God. When a child is born to a family,
this “bundle of joy” becomes the focus of total attention of both the parents
and the entire family.
More importantly however, parents have to realize and
assume a new extremely critical role, an immense responsibility to bring up their
child as a respectable and responsible individual. We have learned how many
fathers and mothers have accepted with remorse their failure as good parents
because of the unconditional love sans appropriate discipline they gave to
their children.
