WE STOLE THEIR CHILDHOOD(s)!!!

WE STOLE THEIR CHILDHOOD(s)!!!

Few years ago, I registered an external examination for a friend of mine and was shocked at how these examinations are written with the collaboration of the proprietors and mercenaries.

So when I hear my generation lamenting the total collapse of morals, I just wonder if we are joking or we really do not understand why and how we are where we are, and our children the way they are.

Those children that you made to jump all basic levels of elementary human formation have now arrived at the theatre of adulthood with their learnt negative philosophies, those you Miraculously obtained WAEC and GCE for with straight A's at the tender age of 13 to their detriment, those Private Schools operating microwave semesters,

our religious gatherings now concentrating on life being about success and wealth with disregard to moral values...

And the list is endless are all guilty as charged.

Now those children we forced into Adulthood because we couldn't wait to let them climb naturally and grow through the ranks have arrived and we are shedding tears that could have been averted.

To worsen the matter, some of these microwaved kids are now parents. Do we expect them to give back to the society what they never had?

Few days ago, I read a post on Facebook where an issue was raised as kids funny pranks.

A mother shared how when her three years old son is angry and she sends him on errand, the little champ queries her if he were her help. Another shared how when she scolds her five years old, the young man responds that he will pay her back in her old age. What baffles me was that mothers in the group actually found those utterances very funny. They didn't see anything wrong that needed correcting in those behaviour. I bet you, those kids will live up o their promises. Such is how we have limited sound parenting.

Don't worry, the time is already now. These kids will send some of us to old people’s home too because we sent them to face the world at such early age so that we can make money and buy them good things. Some of us tell children, ‚ I don’t want you to suffer what I suffered' therefore, they must finish school early or be dumped at the boarding school even when they are not matured enough to do so.

We retired them from their Childhood and now they have arrived at our retirement homes with us. Since naturally they don’t belong there, they have turned the (Adult Reserved Arenas) of life to babies toys.

The little ones that got consolation when they felt lonely in the cold hands of nannies at the day care centres are now here with their very cold hearts.

They are here and now we want them to speak and think like us. We condemn them for becoming what we condemned them to, we castigate them for not being as sensitive and respectful as we now need them to be.

Are we not wicked?

These innocent but mismanaged children are not to blame o, We are reaping the fruits of our labours. They are responding only to pleasure and to the cold world we created for them, nothing more.

If foundation be broken, what then can the righteous do..

May God have mercy and renew the face of the earth!

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