To close the gap between parents and their kids.
Role reversed, accept to be students of your children. Once you spend your material wealth to educate your daughters and sons they get the intellectual property. You, parents, have material wealth. Your adult children have the intellectual wealth that has placed them on the global market. The parents, pull down your pride from your village stationed material wealth. The parents appreciate your hard labor and stop the derogatory words to your daughters and sons. Respect your children’s silent digital chats; they wear earphones on their ears. They hear you not; they apply the intellectual wealth and are busy in global business in their time and space, leaving you on an island of your own.
The parents take the opportunity and learn the silent digital language from the children and close the digital language barrier. The parents benefit from looking at the generational communication gap between them and the adult children. And create a rich environment for the adult children and the grandchildren that help family and the world. The parents preserve time and energy for fruitful things that bring peace and joy to the family.
Becoming students of your children increase friendship, knowhow, and a prosperous relationship in the family. For example, Naomi in the Bible listened to the wish of Ruth, appreciated and encouraged, and led her to a bright future. Naomi stood in the gap guided Ruth to marriage, job, and care of grandson, Obed.
Naomi lost her husband, Elimelech, and two sons to death in a foreign land. As a result, Naomi listened to Ruth’s wish led her daughter-in-law to a bright future. They both benefited from the peace and joy of a grandson to inherit Abimelech’s land. Naomi stopped, loved Ruth, and worked together (Ruth 1-4, NIV).