Hello, everyone!
Welcome to another week of featured contests of the Hivelearners community.
I'm here, to share my thoughts about this week's featured contest.
Parental responsibility is not for the weak; much strength needs to be applied to it for tangible results, as in raising Godly or responsible children. It takes God's Grace for children to be responsible in our society like this.
Parents are being held responsible for molding a child's character, disciplining children, reshaping their mindset, giving them the best education, creating a pathway for them to follow, and teaching them the word of God, which is the priority in a child's life. Teaching the ways of God would input or instill the fear of God in children for proper upbringing. Without God in raising children, it might turn out to be another world of anxiety, shame, and reproach to parents.
However, parents have fostered their parental roles as much as they can in raising children that will become something in the future and also bring Joy to them and the society. Children are human beings who have grown up probably with this knowledge their parents have instilled for something productive. Some children in another society are influenced by their peers, deviating from the way their parents taught them to the ways of their friends. Joining another cycle of bad influence will affect them and their future.
We are in a society where cultism, gambling, yahoo, gangsters, and other bad companies are rampant to distort children's destinies. If the majority of parents are against these practices in our society and peradventure, these children are involved. Do you think parents are the cause to be blamed? Not at all, parents have done their part. It is the children that have taken this decision or accepted to be influenced by another company.
I'm writing this content with experiences, and I will give the analogies of these experiences as I proceed.
A man who first oversaw our ministry has 4 beautiful children, two boys, and two girls, and unfortunately, the man is late. The first son, who happened to be their first child, grew up to a certain age and was influenced negatively by a group of friends. He was later counted to be one of the notorious cultists in their group. This boy killed two people when his dad was being buried, and the mother saw his reactions and his character and gave up the ghost. As I am talking to you, he is still in prison, being detained for years now. He was supposed to have taken over his new father's ministry, but he failed, and everywhere was scattered.
Another scenario of a family in which the mother is the deaconess and the father an elder, which they are alive today. They have four children, two boys and girls. The son took over his parent's ministry and maximized it appropriately to the Glory of God and man, his ministry is still moving forward. The second son had joined a cult, the parents prayed all out, and the brother advised him through the word of God and drew him closer to himself, but he still didn't want to disassociate himself from the group he had joined. Today, he is no way to be found. Another cult group shot him to death and he was buried. His beautiful future is no more there.
Furthermore, some children didn't have parental care or responsibilities, but these children have grown up to have self-discipline and to give themselves the treatment they desire or deserve to be good. Some of them know what is good and bad, and they feel good doing the bad.
So I'm here to convince you, and not to confuse you, that parents aren't the main cause of children's infractions in society, but the children themselves cause the infractions due to their decision-making and negative influence. Parents have tried possible ways to groom their children and put them on the right track for utility and personal growth and development.
This post is in response to the #Hivelearners featured contest, week 133 edition 01
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