In plain words
Only because such selfishness has grown is the bond between parents and children wasting away today. This is not work that sons should do. Parents too must rebuke such children and set them on the right path. Today, you came to have parents-in-law only after you married. But those who have been there from the beginning are your parents. So you must make them happy first of all.
Not only this. You must not involve yourselves too much in the affairs of outsiders. First of all, you must see how your parents are placed at home and act accordingly. But under the sway of this Kali age, children try to keep their parents at a distance. In children, ‘tension, temper’ and the like are growing. You must curb anger. You, showing anger even towards your parents! Very wrong. Towards those who wish you well you must not show your tension and temper in the least. To your parents and to God, who have helped you in so many ways, you must show fitting gratitude. You must not let tears run from the eyes of your aged parents. When you make them happy, you too will be happy.
For small children, Bal Vikas training is very necessary. First of all, parents must recognise human values and live by them. Whatever they say, they must do themselves and show it. Only then do they gain the authority to teach their children. “We have no time; we have to go to the office!” you think. If you attend only to your office work, then what is to become of your children? Long ago I had written a poem.
If the women all go out to do jobs, who are the housewives to see to the household tasks? If husband and wife both go off to offices, who are the women to stay in the home? If they go to schools to teach other people's boys, who are the mothers to teach their own boys? If they take up books and go out like men, who are the women to tend the kitchen? Though the hardship of having no money is relieved, how great the want within the home! Look for happiness, and there is only a zero ever, for the woman who holds a post in a job.