Read the poem “On Children” by Kahlil Gibran. What does the line “You may give them your love but not your thoughts” mean? Can parents raise their children without giving them their thoughts? Is it important for parents to instill values in their children? If so, when should such education cease?
Fernando
4/2/2024 11:23:41 am
I think it means that you can show people how you feel. Not giving them your thoughts means to not tell them what you are thinking. Yes, I believe that a lot of parents don't give their children their thoughts. Yes, like their dreams they should make them believe that their dreams are accomplishable they just have to be told the right things.
Elijah Trostel
4/2/2024 04:02:46 pm
I believe that not giving your children your thoughts simply means to not force your ideas on them. The only values that should be forced on children are what the Bible commands, for those are unquestionably correct values. These values should never cease to be instilled in their children. Continual drilling in of these values will hopefully lead to the child growing up with a godly mindset and set him on the path to sucess.
Nathaniel Haan
4/3/2024 01:21:50 pm
What I think the line means is a parent can give a child love and can show them how they made it through life but can not choose how a child gets through his own life. It is important to instill good ideals into a child and good habits but in the end once a child gets to a certain age they begin to think for themselves and as a parent you need to encourage them to develop some of their own opinions. The parents should not shelter them too much from the world because they are developing as people and need to become their own person.
Peter Caldwell
4/3/2024 02:25:38 pm
Parents should instill certain ideas in kids minds that are good for them. But there are certain things kids need to figure out on their own. It can't be simply because someone else thinks something I will think it. Especially important ideas. I also think that its very easy to translate beliefs and ideas from parents because kids trust and look up to their parents. so its inevitable that a kid will inherit at least some of there parents ideas.
William LF
4/3/2024 06:06:51 pm
I think it refers to the stage of development when children start to develop their own unique thought process. My understanding is that even though many people think in similar ways, nobody's thought process is identical to anybody else's. So when Kahlil Gibran says that "You may give them love but not your thoughts", I think he means that regardless of how much you love your children, you have a limited amount of control over what type of person they will grow into. I'm not sure how difficult it is to instill key values in kids, but I know that it is possible. I believe that it is also the most important part of raising a kid, because without it, the chances of either the parent or child feeling like they are alone in the world are much more likely. Comments are closed.
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