Cherishing Our Aging Parents: A Call to Love and Care

When our parents get old, maybe in their 80s, life takes on a new perspective for them. They see time running up and every moment you share with them as their children, they will value it so much. Whether their parents were perfect or not, they were the means through which we came into this world and they nurtured you safely. So that alone makes them to deserve your love, your attention and your care.

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It’s not time. It’s not time to show them or try blaming them. It’s not time to blame them for the bad things that have happened to you in life. It’s time to make memories and to teach your children also that it is good to honour those who brought us to this world.

So if your parents are above 70 years, try to reach out to them daily. A simple, how are you doing? How is your health? To your parents. Your parents will go a long way and it can light up their world. So this course, we are just checking in. Their world keeps your parents alive and hopeful and happy for the little time they have on earth.

Ask them about their day. Tell them things. Show them that you care. Listen closely. Their story doesn’t add up or they are too demanding. Still check up on them. Encourage them to tell you stories about how their life is going. Or tell them about how you love them and how they take good care of you during your childhood.

Yeah, it’s better to support your parents regularly. Not just do their birthday or their special month. Sometimes, just on a regular day, send them a favourite treat or just a note. If you are privileged to live in the same country or are dissensitive with your parents, just visit them at least once in a month. Or once in every three months. Show them love always.

If you are living abroad, you can visit them manually. Or just try to make hard time for them. Laugh with them. Quick moments that their heart has been longing for. This is not just about what you get from them. It’s about showing and leading by example. So that your children will also follow the same footsteps by loving you also as a parent.

You are trying to plant a seed of kindness that will stand for you, even across all the generations. Don’t wait till they die before you show them love in their burial or renovating their old house. Those things won’t matter to them again. The only thing that matters to them is your gifts now in this present.

So your parents in their late seventies are fragile now. They are like in their last pages of their life. So they are like those pages torn without you. Spoiling them with love. Respecting them and taking good care of them.

Visit them today. Spoil them today. And I bet you will never regret making them feel loved. I grant you.

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