"When I close my eyes for good, I wish to leave my children settled, healthy and happy."

My sole objective and passion in this life is to NOT compromise with the standard of upbringing of my children. Not because I want to feel proud of my kids or flaunt their intellect amongst my acquaintances, friends and family... nor I want them to become my walking stick when I grow old and feel difficult to sustain alone ... Nor I have any high expectations from my offsprings that I intend to be secured to satisfy my own ego or prove the superiority of my genes... No. None of it.

In a mock interview as a parent of a prospective nursery admission, I was asked, what according to me was the toughest job for a parent. I did not have to think even for second because I knew it ... I had been feeling the burden of it ... still am... the task of availing the best of opportunities and the most qualitative resources for my children, within my own constraints - financial and intellectual. The qualitative resources is what I think will be the apt word for defining crucial constituents for building a child's mental makeup, his paranomic intellectual and philosophical view of the world around him. The crucial building blocks of an ideal mind I feel will be ideology, methodology and focal point of the school, accompanied hand in hand with the quality home enviornment, sound deportment from parents exemplified for children to emulate and follow, regular and notable emphasis on spiritual enlightenment and finally the enviornment where he would find his friend circle.

In short, it is everything that should be and cannot be compromised with... yet within my own petty limits. I am confident that my children deserve the best but will I be able to fetch it for them is the BIG question.