Growing up in an African home, many different ups and downs were passed through. Worthy of note is the fact that parents, ny parents, can be really annoying most times, but then, growing to be an adult, i have come to miss those troubling times when i thought that the protective nature of my parents were actually annoying.
During the life time of most of the teenagers, they always think that freedom is achieved when they leave home to stay away from the protectiveness, some call it strictness, of their parents.
Sometimes, parents are not always perfect. No, not sometimes, most times, but then, their imperfection is their uniqueness. In some cases, they make decisions that are really annoying, sometimes, their disciplining goes way too far, to the extent that their always think of running away from their parents, or doing one thing or the other that will make them not stay in the house no more.
Inaguably, most of us has been in that shoe, however , i am grateful to that one force that did not allow me to prematurely run away from my parents even though i really wanted to when i was younger.
In our world today, many different things that i call "stupid," is currently taking over. You see a child talking back at their parents, a child challenging the authority of their parents and lots more that is negatively impacting the world.
When i was growing up, i dare not challenge my mom, else, the mark of slippers and cane will be boldly tatooed on my back, face and and legs.
Now think of it, in a world where things are not actually as good as it used to be, what if a law was set to allow children sue their parents when they are being disciplined? would that not make the child spoilt?
I have watched in movies how a child sued their parent because of one problem. I can't actually remember the problem though, but i think the child was disciplined and he called the cops on his mom. Thankfully, the police officer handled the issues properly.
Lets say i'm the president and we are in a conference hall when somebody suggested such laws, i will reprove that person from their position without thinking twice.
If there is such law, parents will not be able to properly discipline their children. Children they say, are leaders of tomorrow, however, for an iron to be forged, it has to go though fire, the impurities needs to be purged out of it, and it needs to be flogged with harmer so that it can pull its shit together and get into shape.
I don't want to think about it; if this kind of law exists when i was still a child who lives with their parent. So, i will just continue with this prompt without answering that.
me as a parent, and my children being forged.
Parents are like a black smith, and the child is the iron sand. It needs the black smith to mould it, hit it, discipline it and guide it towards becoming a better sword or whatever it wants to be in the future.
You can not set a rule for a black smith and tell them not to hit the iron like this or like that, but what you can do is to teach the blacksmith how to properly hit the metal so that the impurities will be removed from the iron, while leading it into a better shape, either sword, pole stand, or anything (in this case, moulding the child into getting a good professiong and be useful to the world at large).