TAKE CARE DO NOT PUSH THAT CHILD BEYOND LIMIT

*PARENTS, GUARDIANS ,  TEACHERS, SCHOOL HEADS AND OWNERS : READ THIS FOR THE  END OF THE YEAR PREPARATION*

It is that time of the year when schools organize school parties and prize giving ceremony. Children and parents look forward to it as it is an avenue to appraise the academic year.
Mothers, we need to talk.

Last term in my school, a JSS1 student was caught cheating in a class test, after counseling and questioning, he confessed that his father told him that, it's either he comes between first to fifth or he should be ready to face the music. I have been wondering if all our children must come first.

As parents, we should not push our children too far by giving them the academic ultimatum you know that they can't reach. Let's stop comparing our kids academic capacities with another child. There are thousands of reasons a child might not come first in his class but that doesn't make the child a dullard. Many parents want the names of their wards to be mentioned as the best, but what help are you rendering to make the child the best.

Also, what I feel a mother should worry about is the overall percentage of their children. A child with a percentage of 80% overall is not a dullard. Simply because s/he doesn't come first doesn't mean that such child can be termed a dullard. A child with 60/70% might have given his/her best. Sometimes, our best is not the children's best. Education is not about the cognitive effect alone, the psychomotor and the affective  too should be noticed in a child.

Many parents are also fond of using their own academic prowess to measure their children's own. Can the children use your wealth to measure other fathers in the world? How will you feel if your child ask you why you are not as rich as Dangote, Adenuga Glow   or Bill Gates?

Furthermore, parent should desist from causing sibling rivalry among their children because one is doing well academically than the other. Whether we like it or not, not all our  children will make ends meet with their certificates. There are millions of people who are way more intelligent than we are, that are either doing better than us or otherwise.

*Mothers, Guardians, etc. Please, if you are going to that school party to harass your children for not coming first, please stay in your house rather than you abuse the child emotionally and psychologically.*

.. May God increase the wisdom of our children.

 *May our children turn out to be what God intended for them to be and may your school be used for taking the children to their Eldorado...May you be used also to unleash the giants in the children*