There is this saying that …if a parent backs up a child in a criminal act, that child will have no fears breaking into a victims house. I have also heard that if you bring a child up in a particular way, that he or she will never depart from it. Then I asked my self, who will show the child that way that he or she will never depart from? Who is this child to be shown the way?
Raising a healthy child is the easiest way to build a healthy society. If you look at the nature of man, you can easily tell that no body will intentionally want to raise his or her child to become a treat to the society.... but we see it happening on daily basis. After all, the so called Boko Haram members are all children from different homes and parents, and they were all celebrated on their birth date. I believe that some of their parents must have prayed for a boy child to carry on the family name before conceiving and giving birth to them. Or do u think they were all born to become terrorist?
If this is the case, it means that something is wrong somewhere. Is it that our children are no more qualified to become our future leaders or that we chose those to teach the right way amongst our children or are we expecting foreigners to come and lead us in the near future. These are simple questions coming out from Kitchen thingz that need an urgent and open answer because there is no hiding place for us. These answers are there on our lips but the fear of living a healthy lifestyle is the fear of living a true life.
In this article, after all said and done, whether you like it or not, I am here to tell you today that we all are guilty of child abuse. I don’t need a Judge to prove me right here because our society does not and cannot lie. The future of our society has been sold out to ignorance and vices that we are meant to be in control of. Parents no longer have time for their kids any more. Most people parade their children like trophies, dressing them up in all sorts of things in the name of keeping them up to date. Some parents only gave birth to prove that they are fertile, after which they abandon the child for another human being who has been unfortunately forced by poverty to come and see caring for your child as a means of survival. My brother "odikwa risky o!"
Some give birth to gain tittles, while some do for other reasons that do not have anything to do with the future of our society and the child. If you provide a child with all he or she needs without training that child on how to live a healthy lifestyle, that child will live waiting for you to finish the good work you started. That child you are sharing to evil and unhealthy vices is not your personal property ooo! That’s a human being sent by God on a mission but had to come through you to get guidance on how to live a healthy lifestyle before proceeding on his or her mission on earth. They are not meant for your to cover your mess. Instead, they need the truth of your mess to better their life.
The graveyard is so rich today, not because of the rotten bodies and dry bones lying there but because of the unfulfilled destinies lying dead. That’s why you hear about some people going to sleep there to tap powers that will finally kill them. "Ndi Ara".
I was involved in an argument the other day with some group of traders at one of these “nkwobi” joints along Kilo area. The argument was about the so called rich men and their children. They where all talking about how rich people use their children for rituals and leave them under other people’s care, providing them with all their needs, until they die, only for the children to start suffering the sins of their rich parents and end up selling up all the property accumulated by their fathers. In some cases they turn to one addiction or the other, and that will be the end of the rich man’s story. I gave them my left ear while enjoying my “nkwobi” with a bottle of Stout. I had to join the argument because I observed that some children were paying attention.
My point is this. You don’t need to go that far to get a child to become a complete nuisance and a threat to the society. Just subject them to the ritual called "CHILD FAST FORWARDING: In this case the child is pushed to skip his or her childhood stages and become unnecessarily matured. I have heard a 75 years old woman say to herself in a very regretful manner that she will do better if given another chance to raise her children. I must tell you that we no longer have children not to talk of leaders of tomorrow. "Person wey enter university from SS2 will never know how it feels to be an SS3 student.”
A healthy child must be able to do certain things at a certain age, no matter how rich that child's parents are.
You can be part of this argument if you believe in healthy lifestyle and the future of our children by leaving your comment.You never can tell whose views you will be changing for good just by the word you drop. Thank you for being here. #itagokwaife?
Raising a healthy child is the easiest way to build a healthy society. If you look at the nature of man, you can easily tell that no body will intentionally want to raise his or her child to become a treat to the society.... but we see it happening on daily basis. After all, the so called Boko Haram members are all children from different homes and parents, and they were all celebrated on their birth date. I believe that some of their parents must have prayed for a boy child to carry on the family name before conceiving and giving birth to them. Or do u think they were all born to become terrorist?
If this is the case, it means that something is wrong somewhere. Is it that our children are no more qualified to become our future leaders or that we chose those to teach the right way amongst our children or are we expecting foreigners to come and lead us in the near future. These are simple questions coming out from Kitchen thingz that need an urgent and open answer because there is no hiding place for us. These answers are there on our lips but the fear of living a healthy lifestyle is the fear of living a true life.
In this article, after all said and done, whether you like it or not, I am here to tell you today that we all are guilty of child abuse. I don’t need a Judge to prove me right here because our society does not and cannot lie. The future of our society has been sold out to ignorance and vices that we are meant to be in control of. Parents no longer have time for their kids any more. Most people parade their children like trophies, dressing them up in all sorts of things in the name of keeping them up to date. Some parents only gave birth to prove that they are fertile, after which they abandon the child for another human being who has been unfortunately forced by poverty to come and see caring for your child as a means of survival. My brother "odikwa risky o!"
Some give birth to gain tittles, while some do for other reasons that do not have anything to do with the future of our society and the child. If you provide a child with all he or she needs without training that child on how to live a healthy lifestyle, that child will live waiting for you to finish the good work you started. That child you are sharing to evil and unhealthy vices is not your personal property ooo! That’s a human being sent by God on a mission but had to come through you to get guidance on how to live a healthy lifestyle before proceeding on his or her mission on earth. They are not meant for your to cover your mess. Instead, they need the truth of your mess to better their life.
The graveyard is so rich today, not because of the rotten bodies and dry bones lying there but because of the unfulfilled destinies lying dead. That’s why you hear about some people going to sleep there to tap powers that will finally kill them. "Ndi Ara".
I was involved in an argument the other day with some group of traders at one of these “nkwobi” joints along Kilo area. The argument was about the so called rich men and their children. They where all talking about how rich people use their children for rituals and leave them under other people’s care, providing them with all their needs, until they die, only for the children to start suffering the sins of their rich parents and end up selling up all the property accumulated by their fathers. In some cases they turn to one addiction or the other, and that will be the end of the rich man’s story. I gave them my left ear while enjoying my “nkwobi” with a bottle of Stout. I had to join the argument because I observed that some children were paying attention.
My point is this. You don’t need to go that far to get a child to become a complete nuisance and a threat to the society. Just subject them to the ritual called "CHILD FAST FORWARDING: In this case the child is pushed to skip his or her childhood stages and become unnecessarily matured. I have heard a 75 years old woman say to herself in a very regretful manner that she will do better if given another chance to raise her children. I must tell you that we no longer have children not to talk of leaders of tomorrow. "Person wey enter university from SS2 will never know how it feels to be an SS3 student.”
A healthy child must be able to do certain things at a certain age, no matter how rich that child's parents are.You can be part of this argument if you believe in healthy lifestyle and the future of our children by leaving your comment.You never can tell whose views you will be changing for good just by the word you drop. Thank you for being here. #itagokwaife?
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