When I was a child, I remember hiding from my neighbours when I did something wrong because I knew they would punish me. Today, I cannot tell my neighbour’s children anything because they might frown at me. As a result, we have seen behaviours that are cropping up at very tender ages that are so alien; burning of schools, homosexuality in boarding schools, pornography addiction, gaming and betting addiction, drugs and substance addiction, child prostitution, children dropping out of school and running away from home, among others.
We need to go back to the roots because bringing up children without character is like a tree without roots which can be swept away by a slight wind. We have had the debate on nurture and nature for a long time and some parents argue that a child is born naturally naughty; without character. Some argue that a child adopts behaviour from what they learn and absorb from their immediate environment; nurture. According to me, both nature and nurture contribute to the upbringing of a child.
Parents are very busy nowadays due to the hard economic times and because they want to give their children better lives than they had. As a result, they wake up early to beat the traffic jam and leave the children sleeping.
