Wake Up Nigerian Parents!

Years back in Nigeria, the most populous Black nation on earth, poor, illiterate parents produced Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Accountants, Lawyers, Architects and Professors. I refer to the kids they produced as Group 'A' Children. 

These Group 'A' Children struggled on their own from the first grade to the twelfth grade to become notable personalities. As kids, many of them trekked to school barefooted and went to farm or did some menial works such as petty trading after school hours, to survive. 

Now Group 'A' Children, who have now become parents themselves, are producing Group 'B'  Children who are pampered and helped in their homework or school assignments from nursery school through high schools to tertiary institutions.  

Group 'B' Children are chauffeur-driven to very expensive schools or are sent abroad to study. They can watch movies from morning till dawn after school. They are treated like baby kings and queens with no household chores for them to do. They are served foods on some bright, shiny dining table. When done eating, their plates are removed and washed by parents or house maids. They are given expensive cars and clothes, not forgetting huge pocket monies to be wasted on dumb stuff. And in spite of getting help from parents in doing school assignments, many of these kids cannot properly express themselves orally and in writing.  

Group 'A' parents cared for their own parents and children. Group 'B' Children however struggle most of their growing-up years to find their feet, which some rarely find, even at the age of 30. They experience great difficulty in accomplishing the smallest of tasks on their own because they are used to being pampered and helped to think and do things by their parents (the group 'A' parents). Therefore, too many of the group ‘B’ Children are useless to themselves, their parents and the society. 

As a group ‘A’ parent, where exactly do you belong in the chore of parenting? If you belong to the group of those spoiling your kids instead of properly raising them, it’s time you stopped the silly pampering. Start raising your kids in the path of knowledge, wisdom, values and virtues. Let them face the truth and the realities of life. Teach them to grow into independent adults. Teach them to fear God, respect others and develop confidence in themselves. Parents, discipline your children to become disciplined adults, useful and not useless.