cont....Demands on time

Continue…. In recent years, the African nation of Rwanda has gone through a bitter and cruel civil war. In one family, the children lost both parents, only they and their grandmother survived. One of the older boys had to drop out of school to take care of the rest. He was so sad about not attending school anymore that he often cried through the night. His other siblings...

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Demands On Time

With school, homework, chores and other demands, I have no free time. It’s making me feel restricted.    While there is no denying the pressures of one’s schedule at times, I believe that to regard the things you mentioned as merely unpleasant demands on your time is an incorrect perspective. If you think about it, it’s only because you enjoy great freedom that...

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Open Families Are Strong

It is most important to remember that the future of the family depends on skillful, wise handling of the reins by the person who is in charge of managing the household. That is usually the wife, who is also mediator of the family.      If there are differences between the children and the older folks, the mother is often better at smoothing things...

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cont....The Creative Family: A Base for a Creative Society

cont….     Within the traditional extended family of Japan, love was often overpowered by the strong shadow of the household. On the other hand, there was a distinct family tradition, a kind of family culture which was carried by the vertical connections through the generations. Its customs determined the unique traditions of each family.        ...

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The creative Family: A base for a Creative Society

          In the early autumn of 1974, after returning from the Soviet Union, I went to Hokkaido, where I had been several times before. No sooner had the plane left Honshu than Hokkaido came into sight. Rain clouds began to gather, soon concealing the view outside. Flying over cloud-covered Hakodate, the fond memory of this...

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PROPOSE OF STUDYING

                      A businessman went to an island in the South Pacific where he found local children relaxing on the bench. He said to them: “Stop idling away your time. Get yourself to school immediately and start studying”. They replied, “Why should we go to school?” “If you go to school and study hard, “the man...

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Daisaku Ikeda’s prface about family

     The family is the basic unit in social life. People are social animals who can not live alone, and from the moment of birth to the time of death, one’s life is a composite of interactions with others. The essential unit in social relationships throughout a lifetime is the family.      Families come in all sizes, big ones and little ones....

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