Purest love

It is only in a parent's eyes can one see

the purest form of love on this earth.

While a good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint, a good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness. Parental love is truly selfless, forgiving and unconditional.

There can be no bigger sin than displaying indifference to one's own parents.
A son or a daughter should know that they have grown up emulating his/her father's example or advise, often both.
Many countries have a strong support system for the elderly. In India, as joint families gave way for the nuclear ones, comfort zone for parents began to crumble. Age is said to be an issue of mind over matter.

The aged have tremendous insight to life. "Its not how old are you" but "how are you old". Men and women consistently turn over a new leaf; if the natural process is called "old", so be it. Viewing old age as a burden, considering parents' well-meant advice as exercise in exasperation, incurable diseases of parents, single parent especially father -- all this are easy and convenient reasons for the children to abandon their
parents.
If a parent has no reserves to fall back on, the situation is worse. The natural process of aging, and the attendant physical and psychological alterations, push the elderly to despair. Children are often ignorant to the disorders of the elders. Senile dementia is one condition that can incapacitate the old, and an unaware son or daughter may not decipher the gravity of their parents' condition.

Therefore, it is always important to engage them quite often. It is prudent not to anger one's parents to please others because its one's own parents who have spent their lives for the sake of an individual, and not the "others". The parents cared for their children when the latter were young. So, it is incumbent upon the latter to care for the former when they are old. Children should make their parents feel loved when they are still alive, otherwise it may be too late.

Impulsive children fail to ruminate on parents' predicament. It is not that parents have not understood the problems of their offspring; it is just that they always try to ensure their children never felt the pain and discomfort they themselves had to undergo in life. A father, or a mother, does not hesitate to sacrifice his/her own lucrative career for the sake of their child. When the present day parents are busy bringing-up their "own" children, can they brush aside all the good things done by their "own" parents? There is no 'perfect', only 'real', parent.

Unconditional love, healthy development, tackling challenges, overcoming trauma, and grooming for the evening of life, all are parents' gifts to children.

No one would have understood the importance of preparing a child for the future, even if the future cannot be prepared for a child, better than parents.