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Adaugo was having an argument with her son, he had done some business and made money, she had asked for money but he had refused to give to her so she would find a way to take his money. He was so ready to beat her up until the money is restored and when asked why, he said 'I do everything for my mother and even do her business and give her the money and when I still find time to make money for myself, she wants to take it' A child shouldn't do everything for the parents, a parent should do everything for the child. Parents who misunderstand this servant leadership spirit are the ones who raises children that'll neglect them as adults. The way you treat your kids as children is the way they'll treat you when you are old; if you serve them, they'll serve you and if you exploit and use them, they'll exploit and use you. Cecilia Ikpe my mother would always say, 'its my duty to serve my kids'. she washes for us, cooks for us, bathe us, wo...

Whenever it rains and drops of rains are falling from the roof, we were told that playing with the rain with our hands will bring about leprosy and that superstition greatly marred my life; I became very afraid of playing in the rain. Though the aim of this superstition was to forbid me from playing in the rain to avoid cold I guess, but it is wrong to train people to live right by lying. One day, they'll grow up to discover that it was a lie and some can discover it very early thereby defeating the purpose of the superstition. some times the reason for the superstition will be lost and many false meanings would be attached to it. Like one day, I had replied in class that leprosy is caused by playing with rain water that falls from the roof of a building and I was laughed to scorn. Many parents to teach their children from going out in the night, they'll say 'Ojuju will bite you' or something scary for the child to avoid playing at night or to have the child...

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 2 Tim. 3:16 God is very much interested in the upbringing of our children that's why He gave us His word. We should use God's word to teach, to reproof, to correct and to instruct our children in righteousness. This means, when you want to correct any bad character in your kids, look for relevant scriptures and use that to correct that child If you want to teach any virtue for your kids like humility, generosity, prayerfulness etc., use relevant scripture to teach that child such virtue If you want to rebuke a child for a misbehavior, use relevant scripture to rebuke the child; show the child the consequences of such evil behavior both in this world and in the world to come. Unfortunately, many parents chooses to use their own understanding to train this children, that's why they abuse them with words and with canes...

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...

Mr. Okon would always boast that he is a disciplinarian and doesn't take nonsense with any kids. That he knows how to enforce the children to obey him and for a very long while he thought he was doing well. The daughters are always home, they never stay out late, they don't visit friends and they are always doing what their father said until one day, one of them got pregnant. Who made you pregnant the father asked, with 'koboko' whip in his hands, 'it's you' she replied and the man was shocked. The daughter was so adamant not to reveal the true identity of the person who impregnated her, later it was discovered that she had slept with many men so she couldn't pine-point which exactly was responsible so she accused her father. She said, her father never allow her to go out and has never caught her outside without a tangible reason therefore its only plausible that its him who is responsible over her pregnancy. This is an example of what happens ...

Emma came home with a math home work, he wanted his mother to teach him how to solve the home work but the mother couldn't, she never went to school so she'll always ask the neighbor's children to help her son Emma. In so many occasions, her neighbor's children would shrewdly abuse her, calling her "Olodo" because she couldn't solve a simple math question for her son and she'll keep hearing them and enduring the abuse just because she wanted them to keep teaching her son but one day, she couldn't take it any longer, so she registered in an adult school and promised herself that her next child's home work, she won't ask anyone to do it for him. Emma's mother couldn't help her son no matter how much she had wanted to just because she didn't have the knowledge herself; she endured abuses just because she wanted another person to give what she didn't have that her son needed and then she made a decision that she'll a...

Raising The Child For Excellence In Life Daily Scriptural Steps Parents Should Take INTRODUCTION: A successful mating with your spouse makes you a father/mother, but parenting requires lots more than that. There are so many people out there who have kids but they are not parents. So many have murdered their children because they were not ready to be parents and there are so many parents who never sired a child or gave birth to a child.  When we talk about parenting, we are talking about the total upbringing of a child into a responsible adult. The devil has targeting the manner of parenting because its the easiest way to destroy a nation. To ruin a nation, ruin the parenting of the child and the nation would forever be in ruins and to build a nation, build the child. This book shall expose godly principles that mothers/fathers should imbibe as to train a godly child. Every monday, we shall be posting excerpts from this book to our TMC Online Service ...