21/04/2023
Dear young parents,
PAY ATTENTION TO THIS, IT WILL HELP YOU
1. Poverty creates tough situations
2. Tough situations create tough men
3. Tough men have no alternative other than to work hard
4. Hard work creates success
5. Success in turn creates comfort
6. Too much of comfort creates indolence
7. Indolence leads to failure
8. Failure in turn reintroduces poverty back into the equation and the circle starts all over again.
The above describes a circle in the lifetime of a generation.
Look around, most of the men and women making it today are people whose parents were not wealthy, people who went to bed hungry most nights, people who oftentimes did not have enough and had to manage the little they had, people who were often sent home from school during fee drive, people who were made jest of by their peers because of the kind of clothes they wore, and so on.
As miserable as the condition depicted above is, there’s something it does to persons who fall within that category: it makes you so determined to succeed, gives you the courage to triumph over encumbrances because you do not ever want to go to bed with an empty stomach again or have your children experience such.
But what happens after you’ve succeeded? You now become a privileged person and raise you kids in comfort and style.
I often ask myself, what of children of the privileged? One would expect that with a strong platform provided by their parents they should excel to high heavens.
Yes some of them do, but it is common knowledge that a number of them have been unable to cross the rubicon. You know why? See numbers 6 and 7 above.
Now what does this tell you? You must be intentional in raising your children. Teach them the importance of hard work, determination, and most importantly, integrity.
At every point let it be known to them that the comfort and luxury they are now enjoying is a result of years of sweat and hard work and they mustn’t take it for granted.
Remind them of unpleasant experiences you had while growing up. Show them your old pictures. Show them the general compound you lived in while growing up. Yes! Let them see the kind of bathroom you bathed in years ago, I mean the one that only covered the lower part of the body leaving ones head and shoulders exposed.
Make them understand that a good child is one who stands on the shoulders of his or her parents and grows taller.
Why am I saying these?
It is a misnomer for a child whose parents succeeded despite being in lack to fail despite being in abundance.
Good Day folks.
