How Many Parents Carelessly Destroy The Future Of Their Children, By Anayo Nwosu

By Anayo Nwosu

The defective products which many parents have been ordering have started landing. They are being delivered sooner than expected.

I have recently received some consignments I didn't order and quickly dispatched them to proper addresses.

Every parent who sowed a bad seed should be ready to reap the fruits.

Were you one of those parents who paid so high a school fee to ensure that your wards pass their school certificate and university matriculation exams without hard work?

Your children's school administrators would bride the invigilators to look the other way while the candidates cheat or while their teachers dictate answers to them.

Are you full of hope that those children of yours would make it in life? Perhaps, they could.

When Mrs Onyemaechi introduced her daughter to me, pleading that I help her with employment, I was more than ready to assist until something happened.

My friend's 22 years old daughter was to call me a week after sending me her CV, asking that I waive the mandatory aptitude test for new entrants in the company I was working.

I was shocked as she promised to do anything I wanted to ensure that she got the job.

My shock became a rude one when started showing attitude.

She felt that I should have influenced my organization to exempt her daughter from writing mandatory test.

Mrs Onyemaechi believed that I didn't want to help her daughter; that I was very mean and lacked understanding.

There are many graduates roaming the labour market who were assisted by their parents and their complicit teachers to wear academic gowns that don't fit them.

These poorly educated adult children are mostly from middle income and high income homes.

They are simply unemployable.

The parents help their children procure unearned success, the have unwittingly made their children "mkpi nkugo" or a he-goat that is being helped to mount atop of a she-goat for copulation.

Desperate farmers are fond of forcing their he-goats with special attributes or traits to cross the she goats to give birth to desired offsprings.

The he-goat being help to climb atop a she-goat does no work and takes assisted sex for granted. Most often assisted he-goat is too arrogant to even make the "heepu, heeepu!" noise that arouses the she-goat into feeling horny.

He does not care and wouldn't know how hard other he-goats work to woo the she goats to make them bend low for the he-goats to conveniently mount for the copulation to happen.

Whenever you facilitate your child's educational success by rigging, you are making the child an "mkpi nkugo". He would unemployable. It a true test is needed for selection or employment.

Those children abhor competing to succeed because they have always had it sorted out by their relatives.

Some of these handicapped children who could have passed their examinations if their parents didn't intervene but, who got serious midway in their life and were able to cross the huddle of aptitude tests to get jobs, have now turned their bosses to pseudo parents. Some of the bosses have also exploited such dependencies.

The over-helped children have a humongous entitlement mentality, thinking that everybody owes them duty of "nkugo" or help to climb.

Just know it that whenever you are paying teachers or mercenaries to rig an examination process so that your child would pass with flying colours, that you are destroying that child.

You cannot be there for your children all the time in the wider world.

I may be wrong because many of those "nkugo" children now are big politicians and drug barons. Some of them are born again and run churches.

The more privileged ones have been placed by their parents and their godfathers in choice federal government parastatals as employees or appointees to draw up policies they barely understand and to manage our collect future to no where.