SUE WHAT?

They say knowledge is power, but I say it can also make one stupid. Looking at the generation of kids we have today, especially in more popular parts of the world where they strive for human rights, it’s sad to see that human rights have been twisted into an avenue to get away with almost anything. You hear a child threatening to call the police on the parents because of something very little. Imagine a child threatening to call the police on the parents for sizing his phone and calling it an assault. But wait, let me get this straight, who got that child the phone in the first place… I can’t imagine giving birth to a kid and waking up one morning to a court order from my kid because I didn’t allow him or her to go out with their friends and their little brain tells them I am holding them hostage.

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If I’m going to blame anyone here, it’s the parent. I mean you raised your child to talk back at you, when you didn’t whoop them the first time they did it jokingly. Most of the parent who suffer this kind of faith from their kids allowed the society to train the child in the name of free will and now they are getting the result of that. A lion did not become a lion overnight, it was once a cub, and if you do nothing about the cub, you will raise a lion who would use you for lunch when it gets hungry or angry. This is something we understand in my part of the world, and although some adults tend to take this extreme, It doesn't change the fact that breaking those wings when they are still little will make that child valuable to the society in the future.

I know children tend to be overly emotional. Even as a child I had thoughts of running away from home because I felt maltreated. My younger brother one day decided to park his bags (the little his little hands could carry) to leave the house when he was five, according to him we were not treating him well and he wanted to go. Everyone just looked at him as he parked his bag and when he got to the door, his hands couldn’t reach and he started crying. It wasn’t because we were maltreating him by the way, my mum had just given birth and he still wanted the attention he got as the last born.

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I also remember in boarding school then, I had a school son who just came from the United States and was all over the place acting like he owned the place and no one could touch him, He offended some people and they beat him up, that day he walked up to me (I was a senior) and asked that I gave him a phone to call the corps. With a smile I gave him and he dialed 911 hoping something would happen but to his amazement the number he was calling did not exist. I took him under my custody so no one bullied him but not without punishing him for his insolence. I later taught him how the world works and he began to adjust. This shows that the children who would sue their parents are even more naive than you can imagine because they have not known good from bad.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 143 EPISODE 1