Parenting is actually a lifetime experience, and your job as a parent is never ending. It is a worth while journey living with parents (seperated or not), right from the cradle till when we become of age to cater for ourselves and find a better living. There were times we were scolded for doing something wrong, which we thought is right because of inexperience and naivity, but out of our childish brain and understanding, we feel its injustice.
The mother carries us in heart while father carries us in mind till lifetime, that's the beauty of parenting, of which everyone will pass through, only if you don't responsible. Daily we are watched and keep tab to, they watch as we grow to become who we are today, doing that makes them know each of our behavior which we don't realize sometimes. Fathers are saddled with the responsibility of taking care of the home finance and protecting the family, while the mother is saddled with the responsibility of taking up the home chores and looking closely after the children.
While the mother stays behind to look after the children, she carries a great responsibility dealing with the toxicity of the children, imagine scattering the room many times, giving unnnecesary headaches, making sure the room and house is tidy and ends up getting dirty, that's a great work. Now she has to inculcate the habit of cleaniness into the children, that's even a greater work. They learn from their mother.
Shaping up the character of the children, then the major role of the father comes in, though he might not be home like every time, but he has to be a good ambassador to the children, and create an iota of fear in them, so when he speaks as the man of the house, they obey without refute. Some actually uses iron hand to bring up the children, maybe coz of the way they took were brought up,while some are so lose and simple disciplining their children.
The school also has a role to play in bringing up their wards so as not to be a menace to the society. Mind you, children only have few hours to spend in school studying while the parents has the majority and quality of the time to spend with them. We can never expect their teacher to do everything.
Th children grows up amidst uncertainty and thourough discipline from both parents. Went to the university, graduated and left with the question, what's next in life. We all fall into this category after college.
We are left with the question where do we go from there, what do life has in stock for us, how do we incorporate into the society, how do we cope with life? When do we settle down and start our very own family? Sounds interesting right?
Now the next move is Separating ourselves from under the roof of Parents and going out there to live the life of our own. This gives parents a little disturb of the mind, couples with the fact remembering the process of how they brought us hope, their sacrifices, but they have no option than to give us the chance and opporunity to define our life and go outside there to display the good morals they've inculcated in us. At first it might not be easy, because you would have to start fending for yourself, catering for yourself and looking after yourself, a great job? Give kudos to you parents.
Now we've birth a new life, hoping to have a smooth sailing, but the world itself isnt an easy dwelling, so having to fight for life comes in. We continue to bask in fear of the future, know how questions, family pressure etc, but little do we understand that everything will fall in place in due time.
Now we are also saddled with A great responsibility of our own, out of parents roof.
So i'm putting it to you, how is the journey like to you? Living separately from parents?
E no easy for we wey be student wey still dey beg,but God dey sha