We Cannot Have Own Children Custom Made

Hi,

I was having a conversation with my brother and he said that we cannot choose our relatives but we can choose our friends...!

So it got me thinking about it.........

Well, we are born into a family but we meet strangers and make friends with those we can get along well.

Today, we can try to influence the sex of our baby being conceived, based on what I have read but I will not go into details on it.

But we cannot have our child custom made like buying a Cabbage Doll; eg a baby that will grow up to 6 ft all, weigh 70 kg, good in sports like football, and straight As student, etc.....

Neither can the baby choose his or her parents....!

Since we choose to be parents, we have to be responsible for the children we brought into this world and not rely on the teachers or school or our live-in maids.

I may sound harsh but if the children fail in their lives, I think the parents have to take responsibility for the upbringing that could have caused such failures especially if they were not given sufficient love and guidance.

The main point I am driving at is that it is very much up to the parents to guide and groom the baby to what we want him to be; ie teaching him the proper family and social values and eventually, as he grows older, he is able to make good judgements and improve or enhance all these values as he sees fit.

The child will eventually be a parent himself and the whole cycle will be repeated.

With the proper guidance on social values, he will also choose his friends wisely and create long lasting friendships in the various stages of his life.

But he cannot choose who are his parents, grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins, and members in the family tree.

Yes, it is so true that we cannot choose our relatives but we can choose our friends!

David