27/05/2021
Happy Children's Day😁💃🎉😎
Mr. James Boniface, a staff and stakeholder, shared this somewhere and so we decided to share with us all. 👌
Please let's read, though long (he's a writer) and let's all have a new disposition. 🙌👇
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I once had an awesome experience in the course of my adventure in teaching. It was during an end of the year program. I spent almost a whole week to prepare my pupils for a special presentation. I was so sure, confident and proud of the presentation that I had to go and fix my faulty phone's camera so as to capture the day, at least, for memory sake. The d-day came, and lo and behold, my well trained, fully prepared and highly invested on pupils failed to deliver. Unbelivable! Going crazy was an understatement. I went mad. I was furious, disappointed and drained. I couldn't believe what just happened. "But we practiced. We were ready. Our spirits and morals were as high as the twin towers." Or so I thought! 🤔
What really happened? "My wonder-full pupils failed to follow a simple instruction." And that alone was the course of my pain, coupled with the fact that all other classes performed and delivered to taste. Still fuming, as I began to think of their punishment, a voice whispered softly to me and said, "this is exactly what many of you, humans and children, do to your God, manufacturer and Father. After investing so much, heavily and extravagantly on you, certified, declared and deployed you into the planet earth for optimum performance and manifestation of the beauty, aura and splendour of His glory, with all the hosts, fans and cloud of witnesses well seated, clapping and cheering you to victory, only for many of you to turn out non-performers, ignorant, weaklings, failures, cowards, faithless, fools, thieves, robbers, killers, immoral, drinkers and other low lifestyles and false identities contrary to the default and below the original standard. And guess what, your heavenly Father puts up with this pain every second, minute, hour, day, week, month, and year; as many of you are still trapped in this dung and pit.🙄
After I came back to my senses, I had to ask myself why exactly I really and sincerely wanted to punish them. The reason wasn't beyond reach "They disappointed me!" It was all about ME. I was less concerned about THEM. After all, their feelings are of no significance. Ordinary children! What do they know yet? What are the worth? Absolutely NOTHING, and so I concluded; even though I could see the feeling of disappointment on their innocent faces. Rather than turn an encourager, a parent, a shoulder to lean and cry on, a pillar of support, and a motivator, mr "teacher" was busy playing the victim. It dawned on me that I was so inconsiderate, self centered, shallow minded and mean. "My ego was let down. My precious time got wasted. The hard earned money spent in fixing my phone's camera went down the drain." All these clouded the eyes of my heart and judgement.😔
After that experience, I got to learn that the children are no less human beings than me. They have everything I have. They go through what I go through. They can feel anything I can feel. Hence, I must treat them as I would treat myself and would loved to be treated by others. The same way you and I aren't happy that our children/wards/pupils aren't doing very well to the pleasure of your expectations is the same way they aren't happy that they aren't doing well too to the pleasure of their own ego, pride and self confidence. Let's help them!!!🎉😁😍💃
HyPpY cHiLdReN's DaY tO YoU🤸🏻♂️🤸🏻♂️🤸🏻♂🕺🏻💃🏻
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