Are We Any Better?
Children take over from their parents until they reach the stage were they form their own identities. They try to walk, talk, eat, sit and sleep like they see their parents do. I am no exception because I wanted to snore anytime I see my father snores. I found that had to do until I asked my mother; why can’t I snore like my father does? She replied in a sweet and gentle voice with smile beaming on her beautiful face, your father snores because he has catarrh. This is one incident that despite the many memories that we forget, I always remember it. I sit and wonder sometimes, so I do get a child to aspire to be like me just as I wanted to be like my father when I was a child.
Of the many behavioural traits we harbour are qualities that we learn or adopt from parents. Children do what they see rather than do what they hear. We all did what we saw and of the many things we did, we still do them in adulthood. Everyone has a father and a mother but not everyone has a parent. Everyone needs parenting like they need air to breathe because, it’s through parenting that society gets to maintain its sanity. In as much as we complain of the vices that tend to overwhelm our communities, we fail to realise that, the main problem was from bad parenting. It’s quite unfortunate that we raise children as monkeys and we tend to blame when they climb trees as adults.
Socialisation will always take place be it positive or negative but the bearer of the consequences is none other than the social being. We sometimes feel we are ok with our phones and we need not the interaction of human beings. We have relegated the power of human interaction to that which only put coins to the pocket and that which raises the power of reaching climax to the highest number. We share smiles with televisions and turn a gloomy face to our neighbour. We find delight in things we cannot get enough, so we do enough through any means to get that delight.
Parenting is a beautiful duty that none other than humans can execute it perfectly. What do we do that we do wish to see our children do better? Feeding, clothing and education is
microcosm of parenting. The bigger part of what you do your child is influencing the child through your actions. How kind are you? How well do you speak about people? How well do you admit your wrongs and how well do you strive to make them right? So I ask; how are contributing to society through our parenting?
By Mystic Wanderer
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