One of the major challenges facing children today is that most parents have failed to inculcate in their children the true African and Biblical tenets that will help them meet up with societal expectations and development. This is why youth restiveness, violence especially among the youth and other vises are rife among today’s young people.
Thus, children grow up and become very lazy, constituting nuisance in the society and waiting to be given pittance to perpetrate any kind of evil. Infact social development of a child cannot be over-stressed. It is a process in which an individual acquires the ability to behave in accordance with social expectation which is a behavioural pattern expected by the society of a child. This is to say that his/her behaviour must be in tandem with socially approved norms. All the abnormal behaviour seen in children today is as a result of poor parental control. Indeed, parental control is really lacking in most children right from early age, till they become adults worse still parents do not reprimand their children when they do wrong consequently, the children take it as their right to perpetrate ,such evils. Let us remember that every wrong doing is sin (1 John 5; 17).
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Parents should know that aside procreation; there is so much to be done in the proper upbringing of their children, so that they can grow up to be better citizens of the society as well as better candidates of heaven. In our society today. Children have become so disrespectful to God, elders and constituted authorities, and are now treading the path of violence and aggression, and are very lazy to do some household chores. Charity they say begins at home if you don’t start well from home, how will you do well outside? This brings to mind the five agents of child development.
The child must be totally developed. This has to do with the child’s environment such as the school, home community, church among others.
If the family does not show genuine love to its children, by taking them to church which is a place where their lives are sharpened through the teaching of God’s word and by sending them to good schools, they cannot be socially and intellectually developed which will still tell the high level of lack of parental control or care.
