Be Observant

Be observant 

This is a continuation of the recent article I posted yesterday, If you haven't checked it, you can check it here

Being observant and also letting your child know that they can trust and tell you anything is one of the responsibilities of parents, I have seen or perhaps heard some stories on how some parents will leave the responsibility of their child to a neighbor, I don't know how people can easily entrust your child to a stranger, just because the stranger is good to you doesn't mean their intentions towards your kids are good. 

This is based on a true-life event, I read it on a blog months ago, I can't remember the particle blog 

There was this woman that was selling close to a market, she has a three-year-old daughter, ones she opens her shop, she will tell her daughter to go and meet this baba close to her shop (we usually an old man “baba” in my country) the baba will buy something for the daughter and the mother will be thanking him, sometimes when the woman wants to go to the market to buy some goods to stock up her shop, she will leave her daughter in the care of the Baba, the daughter will be crying that she doesn’t want to go, but the mother will just overlook the cry as a minor cry for kids and will push the daughter to her, this fateful day, the mother will bathing her daughter and she realized that her private part has been tampered with, she quick raises an alarm, and people gathered, they later discovered that is the baba that has been molesting the three-year-old girl, the mother was speechless because she knew that it her 1 fault, she sees the man as a father, though they are not related, she just entrusts her child to him. 

Maybe if the mother was observant and she notice that her child was always crying anytime she wants to take her to the baba, all these couldn't have happened, these things still happen though, you will see your kids no longer want to go to a place he or she usually love to go before and you will still be forcing them to go. 

Aside from what they are being taught in school, let's try to make sure we teach our children the things of life, reading books just to get good grades in school every term can be boring sometimes, we no longer live in that age that every child should become a medical doctor, engineer, lawyer, etc, that was in the old days, I read an article of @Theblackdoll and she wrote about how she enrolled her daughter to a martial art school because she doesn't want her to live a life of reading and reading and reading about books while the the real-world lesson is here, according to her, she said she know how she felt when she was young and how she does was reading to get a good grade, which is very boring, I remember in my secondary days in school when our computer teacher brought laptops to the class and he wanted to teach us about Microsoft, but firstly he told us to turn on the laptop and turn it off, 99% of the whole class couldn't turn off the laptop, I and one other guy are the 1% that know about the laptop, the rest of the class was just there like they haven't seen a laptop before, including those that have good grades than me in class, but they weren't able to operate the laptop because all they know how to do is read and get good grades.

There are some reasons kids join cult these days and I will mention few.

One of the reasons the poor kids join a cult is to be the oppressors, I remember in my junior year in secondary school days when some cult boys took the money I was supposed to eat lunch, I cried but those guys don't have any mercy in them, they just want to make money from people to eat lunch.

One of the reasons the rich kids join a cult is because they get too many material things from their parents and the parents are not always around to show parents care for them, so they just make up a gang in school to oppress other kids so they won't be happy as they are not happy. 

All these are lessons we should learn from so we won't make the same mistake in the future when we the singles have kids of our own, I just heard the police has invited the three suspects that were involved in the death of young Sylvester to the station, the parents was trying to fly them out of the country, but thank God that they weren't able to fly them out before they were invited to the station, I pray that Sylvester gets the Justice he deserves. 

I posted a short post early, in case you didn't read it, my power bank and charger clashed this morning, that's why I wasn't able to engage on your article today, I'm planning to buy a new one soon though. Thanks for understanding 

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8/12/2021