If Not Now

by Cecile Cinco

I accompanied my 2 younger kids to school since they haven’t reported since we came from the Feast. The school is the NEXT place to teach kids, not only academic instructions but moral guide as well. The first place must be at home.

The highest point of learning for any child is between 2-7 years old. Those are the formative years. Many parents teach their kids many tricks and the kids learn fast! What some parents miss, though, is teaching their children how to behave, resulting to public tantrums and disrespect to parents.

Having money or having none is not a primary factor although the richness or the lack of it can both be the alternative parents are taking to justify why their kids turned into brats. The rich brats have everything material in place of their busy parents while the poor brats are left on their own while the parents try to earn a living.

It looks like there is one thing that lacks in both situations. The time of parents to train up their children while they are young so when they get old they will not depart from it. Add to that the behavior of the parents themselves…Well-behaved parents tend to teach their kids to be well-behaved as well and ill-mannered parents reflect their image strong enough to be the children’s guiding hand.

What do you think of the boy below?

Don’t say that boys are boys and are naturally disobedient. No! This kid is about 12 years old (6th grade) and he insisted to jump over the fence (within the school grounds!) because he was not taught well enough when he was much younger. That kid, if not corrected now, may get worse, crossing where it says “No Jaywalking” or jumping over other people’s fences which when developed and unchanneled to the right direction, can put him to jail.

My suggestion? Get him into sports. Perhaps gymnastics where he can pour out his energy into and probably be very good in it to make it to the Olympics.

The whole point of the matter, though, is teaching your own kids to behave well at the earliest possible time. While yet 1 year old, they must be trained to know what “No!” means. It is natural for them to get what they want but it takes training to let them know that not everything they want can be had…and it starts early in life…It’s never too late to teach, but it may be more difficult when they’ve grown to be teens. What we train them to be today will either make or break their future. If you don’t start to teach them what is right, now, when?

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