What happened to family bond?

one are the days when the love and affection that flow in the family line is appreciated and celebrated. Also gone are those moments when parent gather children to tell them tales under the reflection of the moon light, dim is the ray of light left from those times when parents listen to the heart cry of their children.

This is an era of family injustice, an era where children are denied the attention they ought to enjoy from parents. Parents pay more attention to career, wealth acquisition, frivolities, politics, fame and business than they do to their children. Most children are left at the mercy of nannies and house helps who will on no account care for them the way you (the parent ) will.

Overtimes, house helps now use slangs like OYO (on your own) for the children left in their care: which means the child can do anything no matter how detrimental or dangerous after all the parents do not really care. Whereas some house helps go as far as defiling some children. What on earth will it cost you to raise your children yourself?

Digitalization has saturated the world, no doubt, children get more addicted to games, late night movies, cartoons, and even surfing the internet at the expense of their education as they believe the nearest companion are the gadgets around them. And of course it is preferable to keep up late with computers than sleeping early and having night mares resulting from the nonchalant attitude of the parents.

Little wonder the youths of this generation no longer want to learn, they want everything computerized, and if possible have all they want at the tap of their fingers, little wonder the society is mounting up piles of illiterates even after they have earned the certificate.

Even parents deny themselves the joy every parents should have, the feeling of joy, completeness and wellbeing that flows from the inside when you are around your children to help them out of some situation, to help them grow and become independent.

Parents no longer have pleasure in playing, joking and singing lullaby for children to bed. The only company children get in bed are teddies and what you see most children smiling at is the TV and computer screen. This is not fair.

Every now and then, you discover that your family lifestyle is becoming more and more abstract. What has become of the love and mutual relationship that used to give children some sense of belonging and security even when far away, what has become of the parental advice and care, where is the old way of life that breath feeling of love and warmth into the family? All fast gone?

But no matter how apart the family is the assumption of your duty as a parent will fuel the relationship once more.