{"id":6406,"date":"2021-12-07T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2021-12-07T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:39:14","slug":"parenting-a-child-yes-it-is-my-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2021\/12\/07\/parenting-a-child-yes-it-is-my-business\/","title":{"rendered":"PARENTING A CHILD: YES, IT IS MY BUSINESS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are in a time when evil is upheld, and even defended, at the expense of the good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you observed that in recent times, people hate to hear the truth about their children&#8217;s abnormal behaviour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you also noticed that some &#8220;accidental parents&#8221; will call you all kinds of names and even threaten to deal with you, just because you tried to correct some error in their parenting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happens most especially on the social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And before you know it, you see thorns of abuses being showered upon you, because you made a statement that did not agree with their ill- conceived ideas of parenting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the summary most often is, &#8220;How does it concern you? Is it your business how other people raise their children? Can&#8217;t you mind your own business?\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to tell everyone here that it is my business how you raise your children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it should also be your business how I raise mine, if you are a parent indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 It is my business because, your ill-parented children will corrupt other children, including mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 It is my business because, you may raise more hoodlums, prostitutes, drug addicts, rapists, etc., in addition to the ones we already have in the society; thereby making the environment more unconducive and unsafe for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 It is my business because, you may raise bullies and send them to the same school where normal children are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we cannot afford to continue losing innocent children to untamed bull dogs who pretend to be students\ud83d\ude21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 It is my business because, I am praying to be a mother-in-law tomorrow and I don&#8217;t know who my child will bring home to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if fate brings them together with your ill-parented son or daughter, whom you have craftily taught the art of deceit and pretence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t that mean that I may spend the rest of my life in bitterness watching my son or daughter going through pains in their marriage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 How you parent your children is my business because, every intentionally parented child is a special gift from God to humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows whether that child you are spoiling or neglecting today would be my destiny-helper tomorrow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 Don&#8217;t tell me to mind my business when you are raising charlatans who will waste, rather than save lives in our hospitals; traumatise, rather than teach students\/pupils in our schools; profane, rather than glorify the name of God in religious organizations, and cause havoc in every sector of the society, which all of us are meant to coexist in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 Stop telling me to mind my business because, I am a stakeholder in the upbringing of every child born in this time and season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every intentional parent knows that we are all stakeholders in the raising of the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posterity will judge us if we see or hear evil and keep mute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, my fellow intentional parents, the next time anyone tells you that, how they parent their children is not your business, calmly use these points and other points your intentional-parenting instincts will give you at that instant to educate such ignorant fellows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still your friend\ud83e\udd17\ud83e\udd70<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shalom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Ijeoma Igwesi, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in a time when evil is upheld, and even defended, at the expense of the good. 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