Guide them

Good morning friends. I hope you had a good night rest. I did as well.

Yesterday was just like every other day for me. I woke up very early to bathe as my custom is because it helps me to set out with my work for that day. I was able to about 70 percent of my my schedule for yesterday. Fair enough.

I hope to finish all today.

Today I'll be writing on something related to Children and future. I hope we all believe that children are gifts from God and that we're caretakers, we're to train and nurture them in the right way. That is to say that we will give account of how well we trained and nurtured our children.

With this understanding, we can say that we're the report card of the training we received from our parents, compliance to their trainings, our choices and other things involved.

Notwithstanding, the impact of our parents have formed foundation for what we believe, how we act, how we relate with others among many others.

The range of the impact of parents in the lives of their children is so wide that some the things the children learnt never leaves them even until their old age, till it becomes something passe from every generation to another.

It is very easy to get carried away with the burdens of providing for the physical needs of the children while neglecting both their emotional and spiritual needs. Meanwhile these needs are so important that it determines how these children will fair in life because they won't be with you forever. A time is coming that they'll leave you to start a life of their own, what will matter then is how much of investment the parents have made in their emotional and spiritual lives.

If after you succeed in providing a good life that is you provide everything for your children but you do not emphasize to your children the need to live right, your happiness will be just for a season, and when the season when the children grow, you’ll begin to regret your actions and inactions. If you successfully provide a television for your child and you fail to educate the child on what to watch and when to watch, you just allow the child stay with the television for long hours without cautioning that child, you're doing that child more evil than good because a value system is being built into the child which will surely become part of them. Same applies with the internet and phones, it is very easy for a child to stray into wrong sites and contents with the phones, so you'll be doing the child good by censoring what the child watches at least for the first 13 to 15 years of that child. So that a value system of moral uprightness will be part of that child as a foundation that can resist influences from his peers and friends.

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And for their emotional needs, you have to be there for them. I read somewhere that if you're not available to hear them say the little things on their minds, they won't tell you when they have bigger things on their mind. Allow smooth communication, ensure that you're accessible, don't be too tired to listen to them.

Now to the spiritual aspect, if there be need for you to sacrifice materially in order for them to be developed spiritually, it’s actually worth it. Teach them the ways of God, teach them the benefits of living right.

Now it'll be wrong for you to teach them to leave while you advertise the reverse by your life. Children learn from people's behavior. So if you want your child to learn to pray, ensure that you pray in that child's presence,before you know it they'll start to pray. If you want your children to readers, ensure to read in their presence and you'll find out that they'll start to read and others like that.

I hope you get value from today's article.

How did your parents have impacted your life and what do you expect to impact in your children? You can tell me in the comment section.

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