PARENTS SHOULD DO THEIR PART AND PRAY
It's another beautiful day here. I want to appreciate God for His mercies, love and protection over my life and family. Today marks the last day in the month of September. It wasn't an easy journey but the Lord really showed up at my times of need.
I want to use this medium to share my concern over those who went and going through turbulence and all manners of difficult situations in such a time as this. God will help us to end the month of September well.
When I saw the edition one of week 133, I was very happy and couldn't read it several times as usual because it's a timely topic and the present reality explains it all. One of the recent games I noticed played in most families now is the game of blame. No one seems to take responsibility especially in upbringing of a child. Who takes the fault for any misconduct displayed by any child? The parent or the child? Hmmm this is quite high and you can't afford to miss out without going through my thought patterns for this entry.
Child's development and upbringing is not one sided but there must be a balance between the parents efforts and the child in question. There are parts that the child should take as parents as well inturn do their own. We can't totally throw all the blames on the parents for any moral decadence in our society. I was discussing with my beautiful wife this afternoon and we stumbled on the kind of performance display by children in the school today. Everyone want his child to do well in school and clear all the subjects in the final exams not minding any course. Once the child fails, hmmm all blames goes to the teacher but when he passed glory goes to parents as if they were frontiers of such achievement.
There are things both the teacher, children and parents must do for the betterment of the performance of their children.
Whose fault? Parents should endeavour to do their part by raising the child in a godly way. All misbehaviour today shouldn't be channel to the parents alone but the child should have a share of it as well. The Holy book encourages that train up a child in a way he should go so that when he's old, he wont depart from it. Parents have great percentage of the role to play. There are some children that tend to make things difficult for their parents. They won't want their parents to achieve anything positive therefore they go any length to frustrate the efforts of their parents.
Parents can help their children to be better and do valiantly good. Don't just defend your children even when they do wrong thing. As a good parent, don't be too defensive even when one tries to correct your child. Some parents are so busy pursuing career and other things without devoting any good time with their children. Would you want the nannies only to train your children? What would it profit you if you gather everything and your children lack godly virtues? Children should try and be good.
Thanks so much for reading through.
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