Communication is The Base For Any Relationship
by Daniel Leon

In my opinion, both, parents and children should pay attention to each other. Even though, many people think that just parents should listen to their children, I do think that to have a good relationship, it has to be shared.

Nowadays, if a family wants to have economic stability, they opt for working each one, and if there are children involved, that is when they lose communication. Some parents are conscious about this, and they try to fix it giving a lot of things, but material things, that have a little importance but are not the most important, instead of giving them the most important that is "attention".

Take for example, how lost is communication between parents and children that if you ask some teen, what do they do when they have a problem, or who do they talk with? The most of the teenagers would say that they prefer to talk to a friend first, that talk to their mother or father. And I think it's not their fault, because communication begins from parents, they are the first to have to inculcate communication, and try to find time after work for talking. Just this year, number of suicides of teenager have increased, we see them on the news, and when someone ask parents, what really happened, they have no idea, or they answer saying that they do not understand why their children made that decision, that is not the correct, sure, but we are not here to judge anyone.

And for children, sometimes we do not understand our parents, either. We have to be conscious that anybody taught them how to be parents, and try to find a solution for this problem, when they can't, maybe we can show them how helpful we are.

So, it's time to reflect about what we are making, sometimes a simple question can make a difference, we must worry more about our family. Keep in mind that, friends are counted them with one hand, but our family is not, they will always be there, for something we need.