PARENTING IS NOT A COMPETITION, IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY

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Focus on your responsibility towards your children in parenting them. Don't try to compete with other parents through the kind of things you can provide for your children. 


Do your best in catering for the children God has blessed you with but don't go out of your way. 

Don't buy them things you can't afford just because your neighbour bought gifts for their own children. 


No matter how young your children are, note that they are watching you.

 

Through your parenting, they can learn different lessons like contentment, satisfaction, good attitude and so on. 


On the other hand, they can also learn bad lessons like, greed, covetousness, lies, stealing etc. 


If you develop the habit of giving your children everything they see with their friends, it will affect them negatively over time. 


One, they won't learn independence


Two, they won't be contented


Three, They will start exhibiting traits of greed and or covetousness.

 

They may do everything (including stealing) when times are hard. Because they are not used to lack and they are not contented. 


Train these children with the mindset of "I have a responsibility to perform and I must give it my best", Or 

"This child must grow up to be a blessing to the society and not a nuisance, I will make sure I do my best in training him/her". 


Remember, at the end of the day, the outcome of your parenting is all on you. 

You will bear the consequences of the kind of fruit that your parenting produces. 


The painful part is just that when it happens, the result of bad parenting causes problems and unrest to the society. 


Please let's be visionary in our parenting (think about tomorrow) and teach these children in a way they will be blessings and not "calls for concern" in the future. 


Written by 

Elizabeth Oduwaiye 

--Touching the world POSITIVELY; one person at a time.

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