We were all dressing up this morning to head out, me to work, and the children to school. Anjola was by my door saying Oh Mummy your make up will make us late and i told him like i always do, i said am a lady i need to look fine and you have to be patient with me because when you are married you need to be patient with your wife when she is making up her beautiful face to be more beautiful, and there goes the blushing Anjola blushes a lot.
Then i remembered the stew has not been warmed yet, no electricity for days, i called out to Teniola please on the gas lets warm the stew and i continued with beautifying my face. Once done i started with Oya let's go!!! as my custom is because you see when it's time to head out they both will remember to pick one thing or the other. Alas!!! Teniola went to the kitchen when i was done and ready to leave to switch on the gas to warm the stew oh was so angry to think that i had told him like 7minutes ago and he did it 7 minutes after and not just about the time but that we were ready to go.
So i asked why did it take him long, he said he was looking for his prefect badge, prefect badge and food which is important (lol). I wanted to to shout, wanted to talk but i held my peace and something said oh his badge is his priority for now woman. I would have began his day today with anger, i would have set the day with not so good words i guarded my tongue. I brought to mind his character, his behavior and told myself but he could have just told his brother to do it and continue with looking for his badge. I could have brought his moral down today because he did not do what i asked him to do on time.... He apologized in the car and i was glad because the apology was well accepted and blessed
See, we do not have to wash our children with word that will wound them because words are spirit, we may think it does not matter but does matter, it does tell on them, it does make them keep things away from us because they do not want to hear us speak negative to them out of anger. Our words make them who they will turn out to be.
See, I leave by a house full of curses the parent just speak anyhow to their children and you know what, exactly what their parent call them is what they call each other, it baffles me when i hear them call each other names then i heard their parent and i knew exactly where they took it from and i think its been passed from generation to generation because it may turn out that is how they as parent were brought up.
As parents we should always speak live, speak peace, speak love and lead by example the bible say in 1Tim 4:12.... Let no man despise the youth, Be thou an example of the believers, in words, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Let me leave you with these words that i cherish so much
"If an Egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins.
Great things always begin from inside".....Lets plant good, fruitful seeds into our children, its worth much more than all the riches in the world
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