Parenting
Parenting: The Skill We Are All Naturally Endowed With
Enabling or suffocating parent? The choice is yours!
In two independent houses separated by a compound wall two people were staying, in one a retired person and in the other a techie.
They had planted identical saplings on either sides of the compound.
The techie used to give lot of water and manure to the plants.
The retired, just a small quantity of water and little manure.
The techies plant grew into lush green, leafy robust plant.
The retired person’s plant was fairly normal but not as luxuriant than his neighbor’s.
One night there was heavy rain with gusty winds.
Next morning both came out to see the fate of the plants.
To the techie’s surprise, his plant had got uprooted whereas his neighbor’s was unharmed.
Techie asks the retired as to why his plant was uprooted despite such great care whereas the neighbor had hardly cared.
The retired person’s answer should be a lesson for all of us….
Look young man, you supplied everything a plant could need, in abundance… and the plant did not have to go in search of it… the roots…
