11. Bringing up children

The family plays a very important role in everybody’s life.Understanding between the members of the family and consideration for others are very important in family relationship. Tenderness, warm-heartedness and respect must always be present in the family to make it friendly. A lot of activities help members of the family to be on friendly terms: discussing all the family plans together, going on trips hikes together, visiting museums, theaters, exhibitions and exchanging opinions about them, sharing the same joys and sorrows. If you think of the others in the family you show your love and attention in everyday life, you can hurt them if you are selfish, not sincere and rude. It is very important to visit relatives on holidays, on birthdays, on anniversaries and develop close relationship.

When the family is friendly, everybody has the warmed feelings of returning home where dear relatives are waiting for them. There are different opinions on how children should be treated if they disobey their parents, break the rules, do forbidden things, don"t keep their words or promises. Some people think that parents should be patient, kind and understanding. The rules and children"s behaviors are discussed in such families. But others believe that children ought always to obey the parents and if they won"t they should be punished. From my point of view, such principles won"t do a lot of good. Fear and punishment will lead to selfishness, cruelty and lies. But "love and kindness will save the world".

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself, and In consequence be is at war wife the world A difficult child is nearly always made difficult by wrong treatment at home. The usual argument against freedom for children is this: life is hard, and we must train the children so that they will fit into life later on. We must therefore discipline them, if we allow Awn to do what they like, how will they ever be able to serve under a boss? How will they ever be able to exercise self-discipline?

To impose anything by authority is wrong. Obedience must come from within not be imposed from without

The problem child is .the child who is pressured into obedience and persuaded through fear. Fear can be a terrible tiling in a child's life. Fear must be entirely eliminated * fear of adults, fear of punishment, fear of disapproval. Only hate can flourish in the atmosphere of fear.

The happiest homes are those in which the parents are frankly honest with their children without moralizing Fear does not enter these homes. Father and son are pals. Love can thrive. In other homes love is crushed by fear. Pretentious dignity and demanded respect hold love aloof. Compelled respect always imp lies, fear.

13. The role of cinema in our life and 15. Man and movies

No other art form has had quite the impact on our lives that the motion pictures have. Indeed, the movies are truly an art of our time- they were born and have come of age in the twentieth century , and they now demand the serious consideration given to the other arts.

Everybody loves a story. Children mesmerized for hours before a television set watching cartoons they are seeing for the fifth or sixth time, or long lines of shivering movie-goers outside a theater on a winter night.

There can be no question about the supremacy of the visual image in the realm of story. The fact that images and movie have many uses besides story-telling simply adds gratuitous evidence in support of the observation that the life of the mind today receives its nourishment primarily from visual, rather then verbal sources.

No one has ever seriously doubted that the movies are a powerful force in contemporary life. Quite the contrary. Their potential for propaganda purposes was immediately recognized and in some cases exploited. Youthful and perhaps too much a work horse in the cultural market-place, they have been vulnerable to the charge that they are unable to awaken and refresh the mind, that they cannot tap the deepest reaches of man s spiritual life and so, incapable of articulating anything of consequence, are at best a rudimentary art.

Much remains to be accomplished. Since we have to live with the movies, we would prefer not to be embarrassed by them, we want the chance to exercise our humanity in and through the movies, and so we persist in demanding that the movies make more room for man with their aesthetic boundaries.

We would not , by any means take the fun off movies in order to fit them into the traditional earnestness associated with education…but the aim is, and should be a higher hedonism which more profoundly entertains the heart and mind. With the existing film classics and the fifteen to twenty a year from around the world capable of captivating attention – there are enough good and great movies for us to grow by. The movies arouse the mind and soul when given undivided attention.