In many modern societies, the elderly are isolated, their wisdom ignored, their needs inconvenient. Confucius' aspiration to 'comfort the old' is a reminder that humaneness includes caring for those who are aging. When parents involve children in visiting grandparents, helping elderly neighbors, or simply speaking of older people with respect, they teach that every stage of life deserves dignity. A child who grows up seeing ageing treated as a burden rather than a natural chapter will fear growing old. A child who sees aging treated with honor will carry less fear and more gratitude into their own later years.