Message from jkatoa

[Anonymous]

After watching a movie called The Way Home, I was struck by how well, we as parents, can really mess up our children. As parents, we want what is best for our children and will give them almost anything to please them. After watching this movie, I realize how this can backfire. The little boy in the film was given whatever he wanted by his mother, such as fast food and electronic toys, while living in the city. He didn't know how to handle things when he was transported from the city to the country to stay with his poor grandmother. He expected to get the same kind of treatment from his grandmother that he got from his mother. If his grandmother could have given it to him, I am sure she would have, and she tried hard to make him happy. He soon found out though that life here would be forever different and a grandmother's love could tame the most unruly beast; the beast that was in him. He was able to think of someone besides himself towards the end of the movie and learned to care about his grandmother. The sad part was however, his mother came back for him after he had come so far on his journey of enlightenment. I am hoping the change in him will last and his grandmother's teachings of love with endure.