Aditi Koirala

Life is a beautiful journey, full of experiences, exploration and choices to make. Every human after birth is destined to live his/her own life. They carry their own identity, personality, power of analysing, and way of thinking which makes them different from each other. No two humans are genetically identical. A human from his/her birth to death crosses over several stages that teach them to survive and move forward.
If a human does not encounter premature death then, s/he passes through phases such as childhood, teenage, adulthood, old age, and finally faces death. In one lifetime, they go through these stages and witness others passing through the same.

Learning To Grow
Childhood is that period where the child actually learns to grow. A child is similar to raw clay, which is ready to mould and provide a different texture to it. A child’s mind is immature and innocent but innovative at the same time. These children are completely empty and it depends on people around them to fill them up with all good things and turn them into an asset for the world.
A child develops a strong connection with his/her parent from his/her embryonic stage inside the mother’s womb. So, parents play a prime role in the development of a child.
Teenage is also a part of childhood but it is a bit complicated phase. This phase is not only challenging and problematic but this age is a period when one gets tons of amusement and opportunities to explore things around you.
This stage is not easy at all, as you take a step away from immaturity but do not reach maturity as well. Simply, it is like a swing between maturity and immaturity where you keep on going forth or back. Also, this phase is really supreme as it plays a vital role in guiding your life to the way you want it to head. This phase is alike solving puzzles, if you take the right steps, you will pass the puzzle but, by any chance, if you take a wrong step then, you will mess up your life. This is the phase when you require the right persons around you, or else it takes no time for you to slip and fall.
Parenting is an important phase, where parents carry a huge responsibility on their shoulders. Guiding a bare newborn life to a grown-up mature being is not an easy task. Being a parent is also being in the most challenging spot as you spend the whole of your life taking care of your child. It is only parents, who are ready to sacrifice everything for sake of their children’s happiness.
A parent-children relationship is known to be the purest relationship in the world. If rainwater is the purest form of water source then a parent-children relationship is known to be the purest form of love that ever exists. A parent never judges their children based on any aspect as they start loving them unconditionally and blindly just after they first feel their children’s presence inside a mother’s womb.
Despite sharing this beautiful bond, the cases of arguments and conflicts also equally prevail in this relationship. Sometimes, both parents and children understand each other and resolve the dispute but sometimes the misunderstanding results in that situation when things can’t be fixed, then, when you realize it, it becomes too late.
Every parent should control the activities of their children but should not be a factor of terror towards them. We all have been well aware of the long trail of arguments and disputes taking place between the parent and their children in almost every family for a very long time.
Parents must handle their children tactfully. Love and kindness should be the watchwords of parents when dealing with their children. Children’s psychology is much more complicated as it takes no time for them to be irritated and again jovial. These children are closest to their parents, but if they develop fright against their parents, they incline towards other people in their life who they start to trust more and this may lead those innocent children knocking towards the door of bad company that may even ruin their lives.
Rather than following the ongoing trend of the society on being the strictest parent, they should portray themselves as the journal of their child in their lives. If a child gives you the place of their personal journal in their life, you then tend to be a successful parent as your child will share his/her every experience, every happy moment, every sad moment and they will trust you. They will believe you and let you take the lead so that you can guide them to right path in their lives. Every matter in life when dealt with love and calmness brings end to the arising conflicts.
Although parent-children share same blood-line, it is nowhere assured that they will carry same interests and follow the family line profession. This has become one of the burning issues for bringing misunderstanding in families. Being the parent, you are the one who’ve visualised the capabilities and potentialities of your children. You are well aware about the field your children seem to be interested in. Your child trusts you the most and follows you. Therefore, you should be fair and show them their potential side in the mirror.
You shouldn’t force them to that field that you want them to be in. As a parent, you may choose best field for your child but if your child is not interested to that field your child cannot give his/her best in that field and lag behind. This will make their life frustrated and because of your lack of analyzing your child will suffer all their life.
The world is getting advanced every second. This rapid advancement divides parents and their child into two different generations that bring different opinions out and when these opinions clash, we see conflicts awaiting. This advancement may not change the final work to be done but it definitely changes the way of doing it.
A child always enjoys seeing them at the top and getting updated in front of their peers' circle. But many parents prefer the work to be done on their own way. Parents often try to limit the boundaries of their children forgetting that the world has moved a bit further and they need to accept that. The more they try to limit their child the more their child tries to push their boundaries further away and this finally invites hatred, misunderstanding and builds a wall in their relationship.

Unconditional Love
A parent can never love anyone more than their children. They possess such a strong connection with their children that they never step back even for sacrifices. They always want their child to be the happiest being in the world. For this, they always take their child to the safest side possible.
Similarly, a child must understand that no matter what their parents will always love them unconditionally, and wants to see their child progressing and jumping to the tip of success. Sometimes their way of seeing and your way of seeing may not be same but you will always have to trust them and be frank with them because at the end they are the ones who wish for your success selflessly.
In this world, where there is immense love, we also find some spark of clash. The bond that a parent and their children share is lovely, tangled, weird, complicated, profitless, but, at the same time, the most sublime one.

(Aditi is a 12th grade student)