The Loving Bond

The kite-flier's attitude is a good illustration of loving-caring for the child. The loving bond that does not bind is the thread; pulling and leaving, we succeed in sending it higher in the free atmosphere. We still hold one end of the thread and keep communicating with the kite, feeling the tightness/heaviness as the air keeps pushing the kite up. We don't hold the kite restricted yet the kite flies free -
-- an ideal relationship described by Khalil Gibran thus in his book Prophet:

Your children are not your children.
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.