Pinky's CORNER

It's disheartening seeing how nasty these so called GenZ act or live their lives.

Recently, I saw secondary school students signing out and they also organized a party where they all danced, kissed, smooched and all sort of nonsense.

 I wasn't surprised though but i feel bad for their parents. 

Take it or leave it, 60% of this GenZ controls their parents at home and they decide for their parents. A young girl who has finished her WAEC should be at home by 5pm or at worse 6pm but seeing them partying till mama calls at that age is nothing to write home.

‎Train up a child in the way he should go; Even when he is old he will not depart from it”. What a seemingly simple, but overwhelmingly complicated verse! It’s one of the most quoted – and often misquoted – verses in the Bible (Proverbs 22:6). People often use this verse as a guarantee that if you raise your children “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4), they’ll always stay on the right path but I am telling you now that, its a CAPITAL NO because a lot has to do with training up a child and not just teaching him/her the way of the Lord. 

A lot know the way of the Lord but they are lost in the way of the Lord due to parental carelessness.
‎The interpretation of the above verse can be problematic, particularly for the “good parents” I know who have seen their older children stray from their faith. 

We all know that we can try our best, and sometimes the results are different than we would have hoped. God has given us free will to make our own choices, after all. David .M. Write in his book about parenting and I quote "That, proverb 22:6 is not a promise to parents who raise their children properly but a warning to those who allow their adolescents to grow up without guidance, who raise them to go their own way.” 

There’s yet another view I’ve heard expressed before regarding Proverbs 22:6. It’s the view that Proverbs 22:6 isn’t as much about the moral or spiritual direction of the child, but rather his or her gifts and talents. It’s about parents helping their children discover their purpose and path in life. Parents are in the unique role of helping children discover how God has equipped them and how they can use their gifts in a positive way as adults.

‎I’m not a Bible scholar, so I can make mistakes which make me imperfect. However, and I do know that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). Regardless of the school of thought you may fall in on the interpretation of this complicated verse, I believe there are several important implications we should all be able to agree on. "Children left in their own way are not likely to change; they’ll become adults who go their own way"(Niji 2025). The following should be careful considered:

‎1. While Training Up a Child in the Way He Should Go: You Have Responsibilities as a Parent

‎2. While Training Up a Child in the Way He Should Go: You Have Influence as a Parent and

‎3. While Training Up a Child in the Way He Should Go: You Will Have (Good or Bad) Results as a Parent

I wish us all successful parenting...