Impacting the World By Raising Great Children

When it comes to how best to impact the world today and shape its future tomorrow, parenting seems to be the greatest and reliable tool. This is so because family is the unit of the society.

If every child of every family is nurtured the right way, I don't think we should be having the overwhelming challenges we're having in our societies today. That's why it's very necessary for every parent to take the responsibility of parenting not just serious but very serious.
According to Ben Carson, the pediatric neurologist, children are born with a built-in hypocrisy antenna. When a parent says one thing and does something contrary to what he/she said, that antenna pops up and blocks out every other thing the parent may be saying afterwards.

If you're a parent that preaches against lies and one day a visitor you wish not to see comes around and you asked the same child you've been nurturing against lies, to tell the visitor that you've gone out, you've just succeeded in encouraging the child that telling lies is actually a wonderful way of life. Some parents do complain that their children don't read. You as a parent, do you read? Have you ever shown your child how to read by reading? Don't you know that children learn by what they see and hear? When you complain that a child is aggressive and uses abusive words, be sure that he's not exhibiting what he learns from you. When you tell a child how bad stealing is but go ahead to discuss with your friends how you steal on daily basis from your office/church or loot public fund, don't be surprised to know that he was actually behind closed-door recording your conversation with his brain. When you tell a child how bad fornication is, but use romantic and sexual expressions on a woman/man who is not his mother/father, you're just telling the child that speaking against fornication is very wrong but the act is so right. Our children gain their sense of who they are and who they will be from their family. We cannot say one thing and do something else. We cannot expect our children to keep their rooms clean if our bedroom looks like a pigsty.

It does little good to lecture our children on the value and reward of hard work and commitment if they do not see us working hard to accomplish something important to us. A child is not going to hear too much of what his parents say but will see so much of what his parents do. You can't be teaching a child about love when you don't show love to his mother/father. The best way to teach a child love is to love him and all the people around him, and you need not to say much. As a parent, there's every urgent need for you to start living what you say. If you want to save the world, save that child under your care by living a life worth emulating. Teach a child how to live by the way you live.



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