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HOW MOSQUITOES CHANGED MY LIFE

Many people are of the opinion that mosquitoes are 'very very bad'; they give malaria, make sleeping difficult as they disturb your ear and they sulk your blood. While these are true of mosquitoes, one of the biggest benefits of my life came after I encountered the mosquitoes in Aba. Aba-Made Mosquitoes are the worst, they'll make you add them to your prayer list. incidentally I schooled in Aba. I had moved to this apartment given to me by the school principal, the mosquitoes in this apartment  was so much that even during the day, even our guests can't leave without blood stains on their clothes. We slept individually with mosquito repellant and once the smell is exhausted, every mosquito that missed you due to that repellant would troupe at once on you. One day, during our prayer vigil, one of us raised the issue of mosquito as a prayer point. This was how he presented it 'Promise! you are from Umuahia, Do you have Mosquitoes in Umuahia? yes I repl

3. BE THE EXAMPLES YOU WANT THEM TO COPY

I stood before the kids and wanted to show them something, I had just learnt in a children training conference. The trainer had taught us that children don't care what we say, they only repeat what they see us do.  I stood there and asked them to touch their feet, I touched mine and simultaneously they did theirs respectively, I told them to touch their head, they did at the same time with me and then I told them to touch their chin while I purposely touched my cheek but all of them touched their cheek instead and very few were confused, they wanted to touch their chin but because I didn't touched mine they felt I was confused with what i've asked them to do and so they reluctantly touched their cheek though they knew it wasn't the chin I had told them to touch. This is exactly how children respond to parents, they don't do what they are told, they do what they see their parents or instructor doing. It doesn't matter how eloquent you are as a par