Parent’s Responsibilities Toward Their Children -By Mubarak Said

The tale of today’s parents is indeed quite saddening. Children of nowadays are facing the great challenge of parent’s disastrous acts towards them. This can be cushily comprehended considering how badly the way parents live with their children in some continents, especially Africa.

From the time a child is born out from his mother’s bowels； a time for him to be fed, then comes the time that he should feed, his parents must do more than enough for him to be responsible person.

In Africa today, most of the families believed that their only responsibility to their children is nothing beyond feeding, clothing and sheltering. They don’t mind if their children are psychologically or physically fine； once they’ve clothed, fed and sheltered them. The children needn’t complaint about any thing else again. This is the fact in most of the educated and uneducated homes . Many children are being exposed to a lot of predicaments due to the scarsness of interaction between them and their parents. Now you could hardly see a parent that sat his or her children having conversation toward their children’s endeavor. Many children are truants and dropouts due to their parent’s negligence. Many children would rather eat up some things bothering them, than discussing it with their parents-there was never an opportunity of such relationship.

There are just a few number of parents who shows their full concern on their children；those who can check the activities done in their children’s school for a day to succour them if possible. And check the books of their children to know the level of dedication they’re on their studies.

Towards this end, parents must be trackers； being trackers is to be vigilant to know the type of friend their children keep company with, are they good enough to be their friends? If not apportion is the best solution before its late. Allow them to befriend with good and competent ones； those who advises for the wrongs they made justly and assist them to correct readily by producing a yawning gap with the bad ones. By doing this, they should be restrain from being malicious.

The possibility of the society to be model one is grip to the hands of the parents, when parents are good and responsible there is anticipation that the society could be good at large. When a particular society lacks these kind of parents；there is an undoubtful inevitable fall in that society.

Children should be train and administer throughout ；ranging from their educational sector, discipline and lifestyle. By doing these；the ice will be broken at last. We will continue to wallow up in even more disastrous menaces.

EVERY CHILD DESERVES A PARENT, BUT NOT EVERY PARENT DESERVES A CHILD!

Mubarak Said is a Nigerian poet , an essayist , and a short story writer hail from the great city of Gombe state.