There is an interesting article in today's herald about families being strangers to there teenagers by not seeing them for a year while they are at boarding school. http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/families-becoming-strangers/2008/05/05/1209839554193.html
A quote from the article
'The problem was not PLC's alone but shared among schools throughout Sydney and around the world, he said. "To earn enough money to make it, we haven't stopped to think what we are losing to do that," he writes. "If we are losing family values and community welfare, something needs to be done about that.'
It is a great thought, what are we prepared to lose to make it in the world? We are sacrificing relationships in order to be successful in the eyes of the world! It begs the question of who we are trying to please in the world? It also reminds me of a verse - What does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul? (Mk 8:36) Relationships are not the only thing that are being left by the roadside, it seems the soul has been trodden on and run over by the Range Rover!
2 comments:
Hi Dave.
I worked at an English boarding school for a year. One of the 9 year olds called me Mum once. I, at 17, was more her mum than her actual one.
Hey Libby,
Thanks for reading!!!
I worked in a boarding school in New Zealand for a while and the person in charge told us we were to be 'pseudo-parents' to these kids. As I got to know them the more I realised that they had very very little contact with their parents and some parents I think preferred it that way!
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