St. Chavara to Children

• Let those who love God be your Friends.
• Engage in the works suited to your age and education.
• Got to School regularly and review the learning material and renew your memory every week.
• The greatest among you is the one who is the humblest.
• Children you are God investments in the hands of your parents.
• Laziness fosters evil habbits.
• The children who have love of God and fear of God will love and respect their parents.
• Wisdom and purity should be your spiritual food like food for natural growth.
• Good friends will make you good.
• Keeping bad books is like hiding fire in the straw.
• You ought to love truth and justice.
• Trust your mother; God will hear the mother requests like the baby requests.
• Attain punctuality by means of regular timetable.
• You angels will turn to be devils if you fall into evil situations.
• Regular reading of Good books and meditating on it will illumine the mind.
• You ought to reach home before evening and take part in the evening prayers.
• Your attire and sanctity ought to be according to your age.
• Immoderate attire will only lead you to evil.
• Let your ability be in piety regulating your life and controlling your senses.
• What you earn by deceit and theft will melt like snow.
• Let there be no day in your life in which you did no good to others.
• Do not insult or trouble the poor.
• It is the duty of the children to look after their parents.
• Even if you are grown in age and maturity you have to accept your parents and submit to them.
• Do not be the cause of your parents shedding tears on account of you.
• Since you belong to God, you must be given back to God.