How much do love weigh?

Filial piety, or love for your parents can have many benefits.

1) Motivation to do well. How long can you motivate your child to learn using monetary terms? A thirteen year-old child from Sichuan plotted to murder his parents to inherit the money from the insurance policies that his parents has taken up. Why did he needed the money? He wanted to buy a mobile phone!

In another case, a child was raised up in a wealthy family. He was used to getting whatever he wants from his parents. The money that he demanded increased. He father refused and sent him to the army. As he was too used to his old habits, he demanded money again from his father upon coming back. His father refused and he hired an assasin to kill his father. As the key to the safe was with his mother, he killed his mother as well.

Money is never a solution or a means to educate or motivate your child. When you use sweets or money to make your child behave, is the child listening to you or the rewards that you are dishing out. In the future, who does your child listen to?

By contrast, a teacher shared that a child who got over 90 was sad because he did not want his mother to worry for him. If his mother was worried for him, his mother will get more wrinkles.

2) Sense of shame.
As mentioned in the previous post, children are willing to change for the better because they do not want to bring shame to their family. By contrast, children who do not have love for their parents stray easily.

Many times, both parents work in the hope of letting the child grow up in a better environment. In the end, they use money to compensate for the lack of time spent with the child. They do not understand the child and may let the child have his or her own ways as they do not want to spoil or make the child unhappy in the little time that they have to spend with the child. I leave you to imagine the horrors seen in a child who grows up in this kind of environment.

3) Government can spend less money on social benefits on caring for abandoned parents.