Good Parenting

Parental failure has a lot in common with organ failure in the human body. When an organ such as the heart or kidney fails it is unable to pump blood round the body in case of the heart or purify blood through elimination of wastes in case of kidney failure. Parental failure is the inability of parents to do the needful for their child during the most vulnerable period of the child’s life. Parents have a responsibility of caring, providing, guarding and guiding their child till adulthood.  While parental failure may be total as when a parent dumps a child by the roadside or abandons the child in a hospital for whatever reason, in most cases, the failure is limited to some areas of need in the life of the child for which the parent failed. It is possible for a parent to do marvelously in the training of one child while he/she failures in the training of his/her other child. King David was a success in the training he gave Solomon but failed in his training of Adonijah because the Bible records that he never for once scolded him.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 7:11 pm and is filed under Good Parenting.