A CHILD'S TALE

Chapter 2

  No one made a pact with you that training a child Is going to be an easy task, nope but then it doesn't need just the effort of the mother alone but also the father. You know these days, a lot of people see training of a child as the job of a mother alone but that is a wrong ideology. Albeit, most of a child's training will come from the mother but then it should be a joint thingy. That is why these days (an occurrence mostly with the African parents), whenever a child misbehave and then the father will say to the mother 'look at your child' but when the child does something amazing or great and then he'll say 'that's my child', lol! Parents should do what is necessary to train a child right because they are the ones who will either make your name or break your name when you're long gone. A nice but profound saying which says 'spare the rod and spoil the child' is a phrase that a lot of people say but have little understanding of. Nobody said you should spank the child at every single mistake he/she does but the point here is do not side with the child when the child is in the wrong. A child should be disciplined when he/she does what is wrong and sometimes too, words will do. Talk to your child, have profound conversations with them, let them tell you what is going on in their lives, albeit not forcefully. Create that good connection with them, make them free with you in a way they'd respect, obey and still trust you so that you'd be the one they turn up to during both their difficult and happy moments.