Know Your Child, The Way Out.

Children respond more to love and attention.

I discovered that by friendly association and spending extra time apart from school periods to teach, talk and play, an almost miraculous sense of self confidence, grace and radiance come upon children.

They value this more from people who are their mentors, teachers, guardians, friends than from their own parents. Maybe because they assume that a parent’s love is mandatory.

 A huge percentage of the great people we see and read about are mostly influenced by other people aside from their biological parents. People they have met with along their pursuits in life. They mostly appreciate the grace, attention, affirmation someone other than their parents (an authority figure or role model) extends to them.

Knowing that the greatest influencers and shapers of our children’s destinies, purpose and pursuits are not us but other people, we can only pray and teach them to identify with the right kind of people. Hence, when eventually they are left to make life shaping decisions, they can fall back on the solid moral and value system that we have taken time to consciously embed in them.

Even though we might not have the influence to choose their friends at different stages in their lives, we are very much responsible for the kind of influence they are exposed to at their fragile and formative years by meticulously checking and chosen the kind of mentors, teachers, role models and friends they are exposed to.

We have a very important task in making sure that the teachers who influence these children are people of right moral, intellectual integrity and values with a great degree of love, grace, tolerance and patience for the inevitable flaws of children. Someone who understands the forming mind of a child and can decipher what to do to help each individual child bring out hiss/her greatest potentials.

We need to know that apart from seeing the teaching profession as a regular job, it is mostly a calling to influence positively the next generation in the way of the Lord. So the personal godly relationship between pupils, students and teacher away from academics is very key in guaranteeing the success of these children academically.

A healthy and respectable friendship between a teacher, mentor or influencer guarantees a positive result in the academics of a child in particular and his/her life in general. This is why the performances and response of the pupils and teachers are constantly appraised.

They are angels in disguise, let's learn to love them.