Parenting.

Novembers are usually cold season in the northern part of Nigeria, it is so cold that windows are covered with tarpaulin to keep the home warm. During these season people are dressed in cardigans while colour riot is the order of the day.

Pneumonia is the disease of the season if proper clothing is not worn. While children are covered and protected in clothes other children are left unattended to. If they were ‘Almagiri’ (marginalised children) I would not be pained because I understand where they are coming from. To think these children have fathers and mothers and their parents are properly kitted is saddening. 

How can parents be expensively dressed yet their children are looking like people who escaped civil war? I don’t get it.

Parents it is not be force to be fathers and mothers of nation if you can’t take care of your children. It is wrong to leave your children unattended to. If you can wear good cloths then they are equally liable to good cloth. Do not make mockery of parenthood, remember children are gift from above and their future lies in want we make out of them now.

Nutritious food, proper clothes, standard academic setting, access to portable water and good hospital should be provided for children. Parents should never neglect the care of their children to the society, values and family principles must be taught and the onus falls on parents. Never relegate your duties to people who are busy with their own lives. 

Take responsibilities of your children, get committed to their affairs, consistently check them in school, interact with their teachers, talk to them and make them know that through thick and thin you will fight their battles.