Why Your Children Are Wayward

I've given this a great thought and I hope you will get around to reading this.
Your children are wayward because of two things:
1) You have always aided them in evil, and
2) You have always condemned other people's children for no just cause.

I was talking with someone who proudly told me that someone wrote
exams for him with his parent's consent.
I have also had solicitations in the past to do same, but I tell you:
I'll be buried first.
The worst legacy a parent can give his or her child is that of letting
the child know that he or she can never pass exams by him/herself.
It's like producing a fake item. For instance, if the child becomes a
doctor afterwards, how confident will you as a parent be to go to him
or her for treatment knowing how you produced him or her.
A parent who cautions a child against stealing and helps the same
child cheat in exams is still encouraging criminality in the child!

Other people's child are always a great attraction for disciplinarians
who won't discipline their own wards.
The more you complain about how the next person doesn't train children
well, especially in front of your own children, the more you are
encouraging yours to be wayward.
Reason: children know themselves, and they know who is better much
more than their parents do.
When your child knows the one you condemn is a better person, he or
she will persist in evil knowing that you are too busy with other
people's children to ever ffind out!

These are where you got it wrong, dear.
In the eyes of every parent, their own children are better.
So you don't condemn other people's but work on yours diligently to
make yours better.
A person who gathers ant-infested firewood should not complain when
lizards visit!

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