Parenting vs Childhood

Parenting is not a child play at all. It’s a journey that doesn’t end until death. Once you become a father or a mother, you have become responsible as a parent to oversee the affairs of the children you have given birth to.

It’s so sad that nowadays we get to see a lot of children displaying different attitudes and characters, some of whom I will be disappointed in for acting in such a way. Alot of immorality and misconduct in the society.

Who are we to blame?

The question here is despite all of these happening in the society today, who has to take the blame? The parents who failed to train and culture their kids the right way or the child who doesn’t accept to be trained and cultured?

To be honest, we can't blame anyone and we also have both parties to be blamed too. The parents have their responsibility and roles to be played such as providing, guiding, protecting and seeing to the child affairs. A child who has a good upbringing would live a good life.

Many children are so unfortunate to fall into the hands of parents who don't care about their children's affairs. All they are after is to make money and live well. All they cared about is the present life they are having and they never cared what the outcome of their kids would be.

An infant is like an iron ore, so soft and dangerous at the same time. But if well crafted and moulded in the right hands it could become a shield against harm. And if not well crafted in the wrong hands, it could be made a tool for causing harm.

What I am trying to say is that, as a child they tend to know nothing about life. They lack exposure, experience and everything about life. So all they need is guidance and a pathway to follow. Any direction they feel is the right way to them. Only a matter of time before they get to mature and start making their own decisions. If they are the right way already, their decision making will broaden on that path and also they see it as their way.

I was watching a YouTube short a few days ago about a guy interviewing prostitutes. I nodded my heads out of pity for those hookup girls. Where my mind went was how and who brought these people up? Are they the ones that decided that they wanted such a path for themselves or they were not shown the right path?

Many times I reminisce about the past and how my parents have guided us. There are times when they smile at us, there are times when they frown at times, time for scolding and giving us morals and words of advice. They were all appreciated and those words shaped us to become who we are today.

Lastly as children it's also our responsibility to be a better version of ourselves, act responsibly and not just against the ethics and morals of the society at large.

This is my response to the HIVE LEARNERS weekly prompt in hive learners community for the Week 133 Edition 1 and the topic to be discussed is Whose Fault Is It?