Parents Should Lay Good Examples For Children To Emulate

It is the responsility of all parents to train their children by leading exemplary faithful and honest lives. Parents should try to raise children who will not burn the world with fire. They have the onus to intimately instruct their children to respect the lives and rights of other people, even if they hate those people. Your children must know that there are enemies everywhere human beings live together. Those people whom we hate, or who hate us, still have full right to life and existence. Teach your children not to take anybody's life, even when they are provoked. Otherwise, the long arm of the law shall catch up with them. Parents should begin to train their children when they are still young. Children should not be expected to do the right things that they have not been taught to do. They are not born with wisdom and forthrightness. They cannot be wise except they are taught to behave wisely. Teach them as many things as you know and deem fit for them. Many parents do not know how to talk, walk, look, eat, dress, and others. Some parents do not know how to eat gently without making irritating sounds from their mouths. Their mouths make audible irritating sounds when they are chewing something. They chew food like wild animals, not knowing that their children are learning it from them. Children learn anything they see and hear. They are too sharp in learning anything around them. That is why parents should drop all the evil things in their hands and show good examples to the children. Parents which stammer may have stammering children. Children learn to tell lies and truth from their parents. If their parents borrow money and pay back, they will learn it. They learn tolerance and hostility from their fathers and mothers and guardians too. They watch and listen very well to their parents when they quarrel and fight against themselves. In one seminar that I attended in Lagos, one professor who delivered a speech said that he saw one boy who held his younger sister's head under his armpit and began to hit her head furiously. When he told the boy to stop dealing with his sibling with such cruelty, the boy said that he was showing his sister what he learnt from their father. Their father beats their mother by putting her head under his armpit. Therefore, his son quickly learnt it from him and started putting it into practice. Parents who commit adultery against each other are liabe to teaching their children to undertake in the evil trade when they grow up into adulthood. All children, without any exception, see the world through the eyes and behaviours of their parents. They behave like their parents most times though there are very few exceptions! Therefore, those parents who are indulging into practices such as adultery have already finished themselves in the sight of those children. They understand what you are doing too well no matter how you cover it up or pretend. As a father or mother, please, don't waste your precious time to warn your children against having boyfriends and girlfriends if you have once engaged into adultery. I have seen a girl who told her mother never to give her stupid advices, after all, that she is doing what she (her mother) taught her! She said that she used to see condoms in her mother's bag. She told her mother that she knows too well how she had been cheating on her father. So, once father or mother falls into the category of promiscuous parents, he/ she helplessly loses the moral qualifications to tell his / her children to desist from it. Several parents, especially the women, most times, cover up the wrongdoings of their children only to regret of their actions when those children are grown and become thorns in their flesh. They openly support their children's evil conducts. For example, many mothers who are indigent do not always ask their daughters questions when they see them in sudden opulence and dressings like queens. They are lily-livered to say,"Hey, Sarah, where did you get the money to buy this costly dress that you are wearing." A lot of girls sleep outside their family homes many days, weeks, months and years, as the case may be for their sex-trade businesses. They can even go the high seas (free zones) where foreign ships berth to sell their bodies to the foreign sailors in dollars. Their indulgent mothers will keep sealed lips because their flirting daughters will bring both money and groceries to their houses. When a child commits an offence which deserves an open instant rebuke from parents and does not see any reaction to the offence committed, he/ she becomes more hardened and will continue doing the evil to a higher degree. However, not all mothers cover up the evil deeds of their children. For example, I visited one family in Lagos, Nigeria. I discovered that the first daughter of that family was critically ill. She was very lean and pale. I asked her if she had undergone any medical diagnosis. She said, "Yes, sir." Then, I said,"What were you diagnosed with?" She answered and said that it was typhoid salamanda parasite. At that point, her mother who had been silently listening to our conversation thundered out, "Shut up your mouth, and stop lying to him." Then, she turned to me, and said, "Don't listen to her. She did an abortion." So, it is not all parents that cover up the evil acions of their children. But, then, the truth remains that the majority of parents, especially the mothers, tend to cover up the bad actions of their children. Some mothers know that their daughters are into sex-trade profession. Hence, they buy packets of condoms for them each time they are going back to the campuses at the beginning of semesters. The crave for money is the pivot of all social vices perpetrated by people in the society. Why is drug trafficking still a booming business till today inspire of all efforts by the national Governments and regions of the world to eradicate it? The drug peddlers are sometimes apprehended and subjected to trials according to the applicable laws of the countries where the drug offences are committed. In some countries, the drug peddlers are sentenced to death either by electrocution, hanging or beheading, if found guilty. In some other countries and regions, they are sentenced to life imprisonment without any parole. Yet, instead of these stringent measures to serve as deterrence to other intending culprits, more people, both young men and women, are recruited into this notorious and antisocial business because they want to acquire wealth, and quickly too. So many young men and women from all walks of life have died in the process of engaging in this ignoble procession. When parents fail to give their children good parenting, they grow up to become thorns in the flesh of their parents. Parents who failed to inculcate values, ideals, good mannerisms, morals, civic responsibilities, and godliness into their children right from cradle cannot enjoy those children when they (parents) get to old age! Please, share with friends and loved ones. Thank you.