I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. One of the living things walking the face of the earth that are really difficult to control are kids or children; sometimes they move in ways that leave you wondering if they are being controlled by spiritual forces or if they are really just being kids. Visited an uncle during the Christmas holiday, and I cannot help but agree that parenting is hard and a journey you must prepare for before embarking on such a journey. A child you are telling not to touch or do something will be hearing you shout and still want to do it, and the moment they decide to drop it and not do it, another picks up from where the other left.
Children once given the room will derail from everything you are trying to teach them; they will leave the path you put them on the moment you take your eyes off them, which makes it important that you always have your eyes on them, but that is nearly impossible because you cannot always be there, which is why we have the likes of teachers and sometimes neighbors you can trust. These are also people who will help make sure that your kids stay on track and don't derail or go about getting themselves involved in things that are not right. I see many parents who claim only they can raise their kids and raise them up properly, and for that reason no other person is allowed to correct their kids or tell them that what they did was wrong, or you have them (the parents) coming at you.
I was raised by parents who believe that a child cannot be raised by parents alone; the community has a role to play. The elders in the community are allowed to help put their child on the right track whenever they see them going off track.
The truth is that no matter how closely you watch your child, there are days and times when you will not be there, days and times when you will not be watching, but someone from the community is watching, and if things are going wrong, for the fact that they know that you won't react wrongly, that they corrected your child, they can step in and make sure things are corrected, but if you are the type who wants to raise their child alone, they will overlook it, and before you realize it, things have gone really bad.
My answer to this question is a yes. In school, there are teachers and adults who clearly know what is wrong and what is right; they know what is best for the child who is just growing up and yet to understand what life is all about. In school they can be both adults and teachers; therefore, they have the power to point the child in the right direction, but outside school they are still adults, and that still gives them the power to point a child in the right direction, making sure that the child does not derail from the right path.
Whether in school or not, every adult living right should be able to step in and correct a child whenever they are wrong or are involved in something that can bring harm their way or their family's way. You don't need a jurisdiction as a teacher before you do what is right, and pointing out a child who is under your care, whether in school or not in school, is the right thing to do even without being told.
