Marriages ain't a bed of roses. It's like a bed that you maketh and so you lie on it. Children are God's blessing and a gift to a family. Gifts that ought to be treasured.
Raising a child is like nurturing a seedling into a young plant which grows under various weather conditions. The weather may be harsh and the plant fails to see its maturity, the weather may be favourable and the plant blossoms to see it's good days.
In the Bible, I quote, it's written that a good tree bears good fruits, no bad tree bears good fruits and vice versa. Similarly a well raised child will grow to have good virtues and will be appreciated in the society.

In any family, having a child is easy, what's difficult is raising the child. Poor parental ain't any parents' fault as it may be due to their upbringing, societal views, customs, lack of experience and knowledge on ways of bringing up children. People learn from their mistakes or other's mistakes. Some of the mistakes made are lack of attention and affection, comparisons, bad role models among others as we are going to see below.

One of theost common mistake with current generation is that parents spend inadequate time with their children. This is mostly due to the busy schedules of most parents. It's every parents wish to give their children a comfortable life and each parent strives to offer quality life to their children. It's quite normal nowadays for parents to leave the children under the care of nannies and afterwards under teachers care as they go about their daily businesses. However, some parents choose random nannies to look after their children which is not ok as those nannies stand in as guardians in absence of the parents, thus the children's behaviour, character traits and personality are picked from these nannies. Children at tender age tend to learn by observing and copying so if the nanny portrays bad behaviour or habits the child will pick it and think that's the way to go. Parents no matter how busy you are, always find time to be...