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Duties Towards Our Parents




Loving, Respecting, and Appreciating Our Parents
     Loving our parents is a love far from the love of a partner. It is a love that cannot be fully explained or comprehended; it’s just there. One might say they love their parents because they care for him/her, protect him/her, and provide him/her with everything he/she wants. Now imagine having a friend who you’ve known for the same amount as your parents (since birth) and has done the same exact things for you, not more nor less. Even though this friend provided you with the same things as your parents, you’d still find yourself choosing your parents over him/her in terms of who you love more. As I mentioned earlier, our love towards our parents is a love that’s there even before we’ve begun learning how to walk. It is a love that is natural. That is why if one doesn’t love their parents, there is a grave issue in him/her.
     Asides from loving our parents, it is also essential that we respect them. And before you argue that loving and respecting your parents is the same thing, know that it’s not. You’d accept your parents’ decision(s), if it’s not clearly wrong/doesn’t put you in danger, even though you might disagree with it because you respect them. Although I mentioned that love and respect aren’t the same thing, they’re in fact closely related. For instance, you’d also respect your parent’s decisions because you love them, meaning you respect your parents because you love them.
     Appreciating your parents’ efforts is also a critical duty. You must appreciate your parents for getting you exactly what you like. Furthermore, you must also appreciate your parents even if they can’t get you what you like because they’re working hard to provide essential things for you.
     Parents must also love their kids in return, resulting in a mutual, healthy love between the family, which not only strengthens the bonds between members, but also results in a happy, carefree life. In addition, they must also respect their children’s decisions as long as it’s not clearly wrong/puts them or their kid in danger. For example, parents shouldn’t force their kids to choose a certain career. Instead, they should allow them to choose their own career. Lastly, parents must also appreciate their children’s efforts in school, life, and in trying to please them.
Good Representation
     One last duty children have towards their parents is a good representation. Meaning that children need to do their best to reflect their parent’s behaviour and attitude by using only the best of manners and etiquette, which will result in a positive overview or image of their parent.

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