A small pair of cream children's shoes stands beside larger brown shoes on a warm wooden floor.

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Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Parents may bring children into the world, but the speaker denies that children belong to them. The line opens a thought about independence: young people have their own lives and paths, and those who raised them are not owners but a starting point.

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