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Good morning parishioners @Steemchurch. 
As we all know,Children are the joy of a family,without children,the home is not complete. It is one thing to have children and another thing to train them in the right way, how are you teaching them? Are you supporting them in the right or wrong way? Remember it is what you sow into the lives of these children that they exhibit outside,and I have always known this right from time that "charity begins at home", whatever you plant into them inside is what they will manifest outside,,they won't hide anything. Children easily catches up with things they see and they take it outside to engage themselves with other people of their kinds. God has given us children so that we can nurture and train them in the right way. What doctrine are you actually giving to them. Are you a parent that never care about whatever a child is doing? Are you the one supporting them to become rude to people? Are you laying bad ways for them because they would practice what you showed them. 
Your child keeps doing the bad things,instead of disciplining him/her as it should be,you are rubbing their heads saying **"weldone my boy, weldone my girl"**. Hey,,I pity you,it may be when you think you want to start enjoying them that they are bringing in problems upon problems to the home and you start running helter skelter for help,you have forgotten that it is how you trained them at first that they are manifesting in such act. You are a parent who loves going out and not attending to them,when you come at night,they are asleep,when you are about to go out the next day,they are still sleeping,you keep making excuses about your work,business etc but never take out time to attend to them to know where they are lacking.

Remember these children will point fingers at you in the future because you refused to give them the attention as at when they needed you most. Your child always come home with problems but can't relate to you because you don't have time to listen, let me tell you something, oneday you will not have time for that work you depend on when they are in a big problem and you start crying unneccessary cry. Think about this so that you won't regret on them. Some children are already following their friends involving in bad activities outside,they feel secured with those friends because they knows that is what they want and they are given what they ought not to do and you as a parent,you notice the unusual movement of your children but you hardly find time to question them all because of your work. A day is coming you will look for who to console you but you would not find any.

Proverbs 22:6,
>Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old,he will not depart from it.

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When you train a child in a godly way,you do morning devotion every morning,you create time for them to study the word of God together,hardly will you see such children going astray from the steps you have taught them. An adage will say, **"A child you didn't train today will end up selling your house tomorrow"**
When you don't teach them in the ways of the Lord,they deviate from it and goes elsewhere. How will you be able to train them in a goldly  way when you aren't a born again? It can't be possible, you have to be a good role model to them everyday so that they will always walk in your steps and they will also give you rest of mind.

>There was a story of a parents who never had time for their children,work,work,work, all the time, they had two children(a boy and a girl) they also have a female maid and the husband's brother living with them. Any time both parents goes to work,the maid and the brother starts their play by touching every part of their body,this is what the girl will see and it always amaze her,when the woman comes back from work,the girl will always try to explain to the mum but she complained she is tired and this went on for a while,the girl had to confide in her brother,and because of this,they also did try it too to see how it is. After some months,the girl got pregnant and this they knew and it was such a bad experience for the parent, they abort the pregnancy but before then,when the father heard about this,he was shocked,fell down and died,and this went on and on,whenever the girl is pregnant,they will abort, not until the children were now so close to themselves that they end up marrying themselves, the mother tried all her best to stop this, but it was too late to make amends. They both died at the end leaving the woman with nothing to gain.

What actually caught my attention was that when the woman made all attempt to stop them from such,the children made some statement,, **"Mum when we needed you most,you never cared about us,all you were after was work,work, no one to talk to, I decided to tell all my problems to my brother because he was the only one available to hear me"**

Pls to all parents out there,I implore us to give our children the attention they needed, don't allow them throw words back to you at the end
 To all singles out there,I am also involved,I beg you to give your children the right doctrine which is from God,teach them the ways of God.
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You can start from the Ten commandments in Exodus 20, let them start memorizing it and by so doing,they are used to it and you will see that they also are walking in the right path. Teach them how to pray always. It is well with all our children out there in Jesus name