by CR (131)
Children need to be used to trusting their parents so that they can guide, enlighten them and help them find solutions to their problems. However, this trust will cease to exist if the parents do not have morality, decency, restraint, wisdom, dignity, consistency and exemplary conduct, that is, if they do not do as they wish their children to do.
Discreet control and supervision are two practices that must always be present in the educational and upbringing approach of parents. There is as Portuguese adage that says: "Tell me who you're hanging out with and I'll tell you who you are". The similar adage is English, seems to be: "Birds of a feather flock together". These proverbs obviously mean that bad company is always detrimental and the tendency towards evil is a fact of life.
Unfortunately the ever-ominous presence and influence of the inferior astral in the atmosphere of the Earth, and the errors accumulated in past reincarnations, have often contributed to this tendency towards evil.
It is endless the number of the deviations that occur due to the influence of bad companies, excessive liberties, above reasonable compromises and seemingly harmless frivolities and concessions.
Boys and girls, young men and women, should look for the home, and not outside it, for a comforting, pleasant environment and the refuge from temptations and dangers.
Although radical transformations are not possible, not even in the home itself, however, in it, a great deal can be achieved towards personality development. But when this cannot be done, due to the temperamental rebellion of certain incarnated spirits, any improvement whatsoever should be cause for rejoicing, because such improvement, no matter how small, is always worth something.
Because it corresponds to a constructive action whose results are multiplied, from generation to generation, parents' efforts towards raising their children can never be too great and they must be based, invariably, on this important trilogy: work, honesty and discipline.
References
[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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