Khalil Gibran's poem on Children.- a poem every parent should read..

One of my favorite poems when I was young  is this poem by Khalil Gibran. back then I used to agree with all what is written here. Now I find myself disagreeing with the  some parts of  this poem. 
 And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children.' 
And he said: 
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.

They may have their own thoughts but God has given  me the responsibility to shape those thought processes. 

For they have their own thoughts. 
You may house their bodies but not their souls, 

  it is through my eyes that they saw the world, and the eyes are the windows of the soul.

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.

 Time itself reflects back and forth.  life should be lived in the present but with a rearview mirror in sight as well as focus on the future. my children may belong to the future but together we are in the present

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.  
Khalil Gibran

you can read more of Khalil's poetry Here or Here