The question in the Hive Learner's prompt is like a die cube with many sides. It has different sides depending on individual's answer and maybe experience. It has always been the way of life that children inherit the from their children and also enjoy the work and labor of their children. I've come to observe that parents makes so many decisions, for themselves and their lived ones and this decisions are based on their intelligence and ability of discretion.
Sometimes, parents would take some rash decisions or respond to a situation based only on their feelings. Have you ever been with any of your parents and you witness how they spoke or reacted to someone and you felt they could have done better and you as their child try to be a little nicer to the person ?. I've been there and the only reason I tried to be a little bit nice to the person was because I don't want my parents to be seen as not nice especially if it was someone that didn't know them at all. Why ? I don't know where and when next I will meet such person.
The same way possessions of parents are inherited is similar to how offspring inherit their parents legacy. Good or bad, it almost impossible to escape (depending on the situation). The reputations and characters of parents can wear off on their children so bad that they unknowingly become what the parents are. The works of my parents contributed to who I am today, how they interact with the friends and neighbors, family members, church members, acquaintances and strangers.
I have seen where little children were treated badly because of who their parents were to some set of people. These children suffered for what they never did. However, parents do not have to do evil at times, it might just be a bad decision. I knew a particular family when I was growing up, the couples did not care about family planning and never considered their earnings at all. Husband was a international smuggler who comes home maybe after every 5 days and the wife was a cleaner in a local primary school. They already had 3 children when I knew them but these kids are known petty thieves in the neighborhood, they were never trusted and get chased if they are around a place where they could get the chance to steal. Crazy part was that this couple didn't stop at 3, they had two more children. And couldn't feed them anymore: the two teenagers among these children had to do several work per day to feed themselves and also add to whatever they had at home. But they never stopped stealing, got caught in an army barracks like 4 times that I know of, the girl among them got pregnant and the father was unknown.
I am so sure that if the parents had taken good precautions those kids lives won't have turned so bad. Those children were never trusted by anyone in the neighborhood and gradually everyone that helped them had to let go because those children did them bad too. All they cared about was to survive because their parents couldn't provide for them. Every decisions of parents matters as they might affect the children any time.
A good name is better than riches. It is because some reputations will gain more popularity than riches. A name can last forever if the reputations affiliated to the name is very goid or bad, everyone remembers the name and has good or bad things to say. Parents should and can do better so as not to out their children in bad situations that they do not have a hand in. Being cautious of what they say, do, how they treat and interact with everyone, etc.
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I feel a parent should correct their mistake right from time inorder to build a better foundation for the children
Yeah, it is the parent that should cautious and maybe the children, they also would become parents some day.
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Its good to build a good name. it goes a long way to help the children even when the parent is no more
You're right, it is more important to help the children when the parents are no more.