Parent like you are parenting Royalty

Your child will be somebodies neighbour one day
Your child will be a contributing member of the community one day.
Your child will be somebodies employer or employee one day.
Your child will be somebodies wife or husband one day.
Your child will be somebodies father, mother, aunt or uncle one day.

All the characters that your child is likely to become have a very heavy responsibility on them.
Are you creating a leader with character, ethics and endurance then as a parent.
Will we count on him or her when we talk about community parenting?
Can it be that with this catastrophic society, your parenting skills are to blame, or at question?
You not only spoiling that child for yourself, one day the brat will be out of the house and find that there is no room for him or her out there.
Should the world start fixing what you prepared in secret?
The streets are not as forgiving as your home boundaries.
You can not spoil a child in the name of "I grow up without this and I want my child to have it"
Material things does not show love or build a bond, they are a reward for being well disciplined and being a good  child, not so that your child can keep quiet.
I have seen children when they cry they are given a cell phone, not a dummy phone, the S5.
*Warning; that is just a start of a powerful Venomous, destructive relationship. Soon you will be saying he or she never listen to me, because when you were suppose to be talking to a child, you gave him or her a phone, now she/ he is old and the phone does not appeal anymore.

Proverbs23:13 "Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14 Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.

Those are the children with a (No Entry) sign at their room door, in your own house. Uyandina(you are annoying) living in your house as if you are afraid of loosing votes, you are a parent for God's sake, you were never voted in that seat.
The excuse can not be in single parenting all the time, my mother raised 3boys and 4girls single handed when my father was in the big city working and we saw him once a month.
Those were the bad times of the 80's and 90's, with political unrest and all. Many other woman and man went through single parenting and made it.
Money, TV and expensive clothes can never substitute your sound teaching, voice and authority.
Stop parenting like they do next door, you are not Ed gars Active and Sport Scene, you are neighbours. You children's are not walking displays.
Stop parenting the way your child wants you to parent them and do the right thing.

Proverbs22:6 "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it"

I really have nothing against brands for children, however you know as a parent when things are out of your hand, when you do it to keep peace in the house, when you do it so that I wont leave school, when you do it because my friends also has them. Soon it will be this one is out of fashion or I saw another kid from another school has it, I don't want it anymore.

There is no proper age for children to be taught, the earlier the better, at age 6/7 you may be late if you say you waiting for them to understand. It's not a matter of understanding but growing up with it.

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