KIDS’ WATCH, THEY NOT ONLY LISTEN

Having babies isn’t really the thing but training them to be responsible adults. I have had to listen to parents bemoan who their kids had grown to become, blaming it on peer pressure, outright defiance, improper environment and so on.  And sometimes I wonder why these parents never come to terms with the fact that in most cases, kids are only a modernized version of whom their parents are.

Children in a household are privy to the innermost secrets of their parents that the world never gets to see, so they tend to exhibit such traits rather unrepentantly. For instance, a woman that steals, even if it is only from the pocket of her husband has a high tendency of being mothers to kids that pilfers. A promiscuous woman is more likely to raise a sexually immoral for a daughter, than a mother who is decent.

A fetish man in privy, or one that wields cutlasses at every slightest provocation and most probably keeps arms and ammunition illegally would raise cultists and arms dealers as kids respectively.

To the above by the way, there are bound to be a few exemptions though.

Meanwhile on a face-book platform where I belonged, a woman wrote about her seven-year-old son for assuming the role of his father whenever the latter travels on a business trip. The young boy would ensure all exit/entry doors are locked, lightings put off, pecks and then cuddles his mum and younger sister to sleep before going to bed himself. All of these his father does every night and he in turn had believed it to be normal. It is normal actually.

Now that’s a responsible young man in the making.

And if it wasn’t for his father leading by example, how do you get to lecture a seven-year-old on being responsible? No way, but because he saw it, it got stuck on him.

 In as much as growing adults figure out a lot of things as growth progresses, parents have a big role to play on the need to live responsibly and morally upright too. This is for the sake of their children.

Parents should also be quick to nib in the bud, many ills of their kids as they grow. They are never too young to be corrected, because it is actually a major step towards breeding a responsible adult.

 I have met a lot of people with not just bad but childish characters as adults. Bad habits like being utterly destructive when angry, covetousness, lazy, dirty, or simply disorganized. It never starts in a day; they either out rightly inherited it from their parents or guardian, or must have been there from the earlier days to their progression into adulthood but not tamed.

Now I remember a covetous supervisor I once had at work. He’ll salivate at the sight of anything that looked delicious even if it was a slice of bread from the mouth of a goat. Needless to say he’d not be at ease until his taste bud is satisfied.

He also covets a lot of things he sometimes doesn’t even need that it often births annoyance from those of us around him. Here goes an adult whose habits must have either been traits from his parents, or that he wasn’t timely tamed.

In as much as every human is undoubtedly a work in progress, parents are implored to raise kids not just in the way of the lord, but in generally and widely acceptable standards devoid of being toxic humans, especially to the society at large.

Kids actually watch than they listen or are taught. This is an implication that, raising someone responsible starts with being a responsible adult,and not just preaching responsibility.

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