The father is like a high mountain with a grandeur of body and a snowy summit as high as the clouds in the sky.

The mother’s heart is an ocean full of love and peace.

When our father, the Prophet Adam, had a son and a daughter, he asked Angel Gabriel:

“I haven’t felt the mercy of a mother, nor do I know of paternal love. Then why was I granted this fate?”

“Allah is your father and mother. Wouldn’t He replace both?” Gabriel replied.

It is an obligation upon the child to please his parents. When are parents happy with what their children do?

When a child surpasses his father in work, respect, wealth and affluence, then his parents will be as pleased as their child makes them.

The child is the most precious belonging of the father.

The child is a continuation of the parents.

A child can leave his parents upon obtaining proper consent and approval from them, as required by a proper upbringing. And on the part of the child to gain consent is a debt to his or her parents.

Türkmen people have various sayings, principles and ethical rules regarding children’s responsibilities to their parents. These are the accumulation of thousands of years of experience. The Türkmen family lies at the root of these. Society is in fact based on the family. So the ultimate aim is the reinforcement and strengthening of society. Therefore personal values, familial values and social values are not separate entities in the Türkmens but they stand as inseparable parts of a whole. It is this harmony that helped the Türkmen nation survive as a nation for thousands of years. It was only under