Anakku Belajar Dari Lingkungan Hidupnya

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan celaan

Ia belajar memaki 

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan permusuhan

Ia belajar menentang 

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan cemoohan

Ia belajar rendah diri 

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan toleransi

Ia belajar jadi penyabar 

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan dorongan

Ia belajar percaya diri 

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan pujian

Ia belajar menghargai 

Jika anak dibesarkan dengan kasih sayang dan persahabatan

Ia akan terbiasa berpendirian

By: Dorothy Law Nolte

Children by Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
And He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also
The bow that is stable.