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*HOW TO PREPARE YOUR CHILDREN FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE*

1. *BE PRESENT IN THEIR LIFE*
Don't delegate your presence to your househelp or relatives

2. *SHIELD THEM FROM TRAUMA AT HOME*
Nothing holds back progress in development like trauma. Trauma makes children hate being at home when they watch mom and dad fight or the parent treating them badly. Some adults are using so much effort and time undoing the damage of their childhood trauma instead of building their future. Don't let that be your child

3. *BE EASY TO TALK TO*
Be approachable. Don't make your children scared of you that they end up not sharing their questions and struggles. This is what makes future adults find it difficult to be themselves

4. *MODEL BY EXAMPLE*
Don't expect your children to behave well, talk well if you do not. They are watching

5. *BE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE VALUES YOU WANT TO INCULCATE IN THEM*
Identify at least four values you want to teach your children. Is it hardwork, honesty, respect... if you are not specific, you can't be effective, you can't measure it

6. *SPEAK LIFE INTO THEM*
Pray for them, speak blessings over them; especially in their presence. Call out their greatness. "You will do great things my child"

7. *SHARE YOUR WINS AND FAILURES*
Tell them your stories, lessons you have learnt. Your biography as the parent is powerful. Be real and vulnerable

8. *GIVE THEM ROOM TO MAKE MISTAKES*
Don't shield your children too much, allow them to try their own path, to take risks, to experiment and talk with them about lessons learnt

9. *TEACH THEM HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS*
Don't spoon feed them yes or no answers. Teach them how to arrive at a yes or a no. You will not always be in their life to choose for them

10. *IDENTIFY THEIR PURPOSE AND TALENT YOUNG*
Keep your children from wasting time. Find out what they are great at and passionate in and support it early. This will give them a head start and help them in forming an identity

11. *TEACH THEM HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS*
Your children should learn how to interact, how to discern people, how to make friends and keep friends. A bright future will require networking, not isolation

12. *PROVIDE FOR THEM A SUPPORT SYSTEM*
Link your children to mentors, uncles, aunts, public figures who can add value to them. Let your child grow up in a community of people pro-growth

13. *TEACH THEM TO BE SEXUALLY RESPONSIBLE*
Sexual abuse or misuse ruins destinies. Teach your children how to control their sexual urges

14. *TEACH THEM HOW TO HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY*
You expect your children to be wealthy, then start early in teaching them financial management. Expose your children to big money and big ideas at a young age so that they won't find prosperity foreign or a preserve for others

15. *BE THEIR BIGGEST CHEERLEADER*
Don't criticize your children to the point they feel like a failure. Instead, celebrate their wins and progress, no matter how small

16. *DISCOURAGE SIBLING RIVALRY*
Don't show favouritism. Don't make any child perceive you have favourites. Encourage them to accept each other's uniqueness and be united

17. *SHOW THEM THAT ALL CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
Parents are the first to show that one has to choose the right way to live. Don't excuse their bad behavior neither cover up their lapses, make them learn from home the consequences of their actions .
Good home training is manifested outside the home.

18. *GIVE THEM THE BEST EDUCATION*
As much as you can, invest in a good education for them. It compliments your parenting

19. *TEACH THEM HOW TO BE INQUISITIVE*
Let your children love knowledge and be thirsty to understand the world outside the classroom. Teach them that studying is not just to pass exams and that there are valuable lessons to learn outside of formal education

20. *TEACH THEM HOW TO HANDLE REJECTION*
Rejection is part of life. Teach your children how to accept closed doors, how to moderate their expectations, how to pick oneself up

21. *TEACH THEM SELF DISCIPLINE AND PATIENCE*
Teach your children that not everything comes easy. Through tasks and games, teach them to stay on course no matter how difficult. Teach them to finish what they start.

ABOVE ALL
Introduce them to God early, let them know that God is our main source and we can do nothing without him in our lives.

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The best part of the year is here!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

The examinations are over and almost every other school has closed the 2022 academic year.

Your children will bring Reports Sheets home in the coming days.

I know and believe you are all really eager for your child to do well; and that is fine.

However, we should understand what doing well means.

Please darling parents do understand that amongst the children who sat for the exams, is an artist, who doesn't need to understand Maths.

There's also an entrepreneur, who doesn't care about History or English Literature.

There's a politician, whose Chemistry marks won't matter.

There's a Sportsperson, whose physical fitness is more important than Physics.

There are farmers who will later feed the nation.

There are some who will end up as teachers that will qualify to teach specific subjects.

If your child comes home with an excellent result, then that's great.

But, if he/she doesn't perform as much as you had expected. It's still okay.

But please don't take away their self- confidence and dignity by running them down by calling them "Olodo iranu" meaning useless dullard.

Simply tell them it's ok. It was just an exam. I trust you'll do better next term.

School children are all cut out for much bigger things in life. We don't want anyone of them to be demoralized.

Tell them, no matter what they score, you love them and will not judge them by that singular act.

Tell them there are other criteria which measure success besides academic results.

Please do this, and watch your children conquer the world.

And please, do not think that doctors and engineers are the only happy people in the world.

Think of *Tobi Amusan, Usain Bolt, Dolly Parton, Bill Gates, Christiano Ronaldo and Innoson motors.*

Also remember *Aminu, Dantata etc.* They don't have degrees.

And think of those who got low grades but later made it in life like *Ben Carson.*

Be happy for them when they come home with those Reports Sheets.

Encourage them to do better. Motivate those who will not be so successful.

Let them know there's beauty in going back and giving it another shot.

*Don't judge them. Don't condemn them.*

Not doing well enough in a single examination *CAN NEVER* make your children failures.

Their destinies are locked up in far greater things later in life.

Let's be proud of all our children and be confident that they're going to be highly successful in life.

I wish all our children a very Happy holiday.

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