In the name of Allah the most gracious, the merciful.
All praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, peace and blessings be upon the last prophet Muhammad sallahu alaihi wassalam. Alhamdulillah, I praise Allah for the goodness that He has presented me with these few days. I finished my endless lists of presentations for the semester. Alhamdulillah.
Reflecting on what I've seen and gone through these 22 years of living, I see the importance of having a good foundation, regardless of the aspect that one choose to talk about. But the easiest, most agreeable foundation one can refer to is, home.
Outside influences don't matter if home foundation is good.
A good home is essential to proper upbringing. At the same time, we cannot be complacent about outside influences. Children, like budding plants, have to be protected from the harmful environment, whether it is friends, media, books or whatever. It is not healthy to let children be pulled in all difference directions in the fallacious hopes that they will ultimately sort things out for themselves.
Although I've gone through such rough journey 'finding myself', I do not think that everyone has the perseverance or the determination to choose the 'road not taken'. Not saying that everyone is such a chicken, but children, they look for people that they can look up to, and if they happen to meet the wrong people, it might just be the end for them.
Therefore, my opinion is for parents to have limitations to where children can reach/go to. Yes, it's true that the more we say no, the more they want to do it. The curiosity in children is not something we can just halt. This, here, is when parenting takes place. modelling the right behaviour, giving them the knowledge of what's right and what's not and reasoning to why such thing is a bad action are important.
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