Hi great people,
I'm happy to drop this here.
I thank God for the privilege to be a parent of two kids. A male and a female. One is 2.5 years old while the other 5months old.
Seeing them growing each day before my very eyes gives me tremendous joy and sense of more responsibility.
In the journey of parenthood, I realised that tender training is pivotal in the development of our children. Most parents neglect the tender age and assume the child might not be able to respond or grasp certain trainings. I have discovered that tender training is very good.
Before I go further, let's define some things. What is training?
Training means educating, or a process of giving somebody or someone acquiring skills for personal development.
Training can also be seen as learning skill that prepare an individual for responsibility.
Training entails mentoring, discipling, teaching, putting through an individual for better and greater output.
While tender means young, small etc in my perspective it means small age of a child from the day of birth to a particular age. I would not want to restrict it or give age bracket because of our individual differences.
To train a child at tender entails giving rapt attention to the children's learning from the day of birth to when the child would be begin to take responsibility.
If you don't start early, you may end late.
Many parents are reluctant in training their ward early which endangers the child at certain stage of life.
Life is filled with many experiences and is expedient for one to reinforce and prepare adequately before some of the experiences start unfolding.
The decadence of moral in our society especially from the country I hail from is deteriorating as a result of this lackadaisical and reluctant attitude of parents training their children early.
The omission of this leads to certain evil such as stealing, kidnapping, smoking etc.
As a family, we decided to start training our children right from the womb by singing some songs almost daily then after birth they became used to such songs.
Before they started crawling, prayers, Rhymes, Alphabet songs etc were introduced to them.
At age 1, my son started doing a lot of things beyond other children of his contemporary.
One of the amazing things my son started doing now at age 2 is taking care of his younger sister, pounding things using mortal and stick remember this is Africa you know.
Another amazing thing is our little daughter that is 5month. I wondered where this kind of her energy came from. She can grab things firmly, hmmm she has mastered voices of her parents.
Do you know that no matter how tender these kids are, they are impacted by what they see? If you don't teach them correctly watch out the kind of product you have later.
I know the challenge is, we can't give what we don't have. If you as parents aren't properly trained how would you train your children? It may be harsh but that's the basic truth.
What you don't have time for now, you may have time for it later but in an expensive way. Therefore let's make efforts to at least train these kids while they are tender now. Train them while tender.
Thanks for reading my blog.
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