WHAT IS THE GREATEST SIN?

I was with my elder son for ten days in Bangalore. We went to Pondicherry and enjoyed the clean and beautiful city. He took all cares of his mother and me.

CHILDREN ARE A GIFT FROM GOD

I remembered his childhood days. How I used to punish him due to my frustrations and depressions earned in office. I was thinking with self-reproach,” Was it proper to punish a small child on a little pretext to ventilate frustrations of my workplace?”

In another incident, one of my close relatives called on us with his family members a few months ago. He has two beautiful sweet children. He was lovingly teasing them,” We will leave you at this place.” His two years old younger daughter was taking his teasings right. The poor girl was totally nervous, and she desperately hugged her mother tightly. I intervened finally and lovingly forbade him not to tease children.

At another place, a grown up was entertaining himself by abusing a small child. The child was retorting in the same language.

Is it proper to tease lovely children and give them psychological shocks just for the pastime? Is it proper to punish an innocent looking child on small pretexts because one is carrying loads of frustration, tiredness, and depression from his workplace?
 Is it not the greatest sin of this world?

SAVE YOUR CHILD FROM RASCALS

Once I read in a newspaper that a drunken beast attempted to rape his daughter, the villagers saved the victim after hearing her shouts. Later on,  the ill-fated girl and her mother lodged a FIR with the Police.

 Newspapers often report such incidents where close relatives or friends are involved in such heinous crimes. So, don't leave your child alone with even a close relative.

Perpetrators of sexual assault on the children are often known to the child and trusted by his family

Everybody is not a rascal. None is out and out saint also. Both good and bad thoughts continuously flow in our mind. Even a good man may commit blunders if there is nobody to stop him. Moreover, such incidents are contagious like an epidemic. The small child does not understand what is right or wrong? He attempts to repeat nasty things with his juniors.

Since one can’t be present at every place to guard a small child; it will not be a bad idea to make him abreast of such threats. I hope child psychologists will take the challenge to design suitable strategies for this noble cause.