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they go wrong because of parental failures

Just a few days ago,we awoke to the most shocking news here in my country of a thirteen year old  who allegedly stabbed to death an eleven year old girl.There were reports that his actions were after the girl refused to give in to his sexual advances.This is so sad,an incident that came along with hard to answer questions and it brought a circle of nightmares because the two youngsters belonged to families that were friends.

This is an incident that may have caught many off-guard but to some extent it is a wake-up call to make us realize that our children as young as they may be,are capable of anything.As per our education curriculum,a thirteen year old is still in his primary school level of education and has few more years before completion of education.But the question here,what does this boy think he knows and for surely feels he need to have.

Even as we say times are changing,we need to step up our roles as parents.This is not the time to tell your daughters that they should not play with boys and to your sons that they are too young to comprehend romance issues.It is now obvious that sex education is important to our children and so as parents its our role to talk to our children on this issue.What’s more we should not leave everything  to the teachers since there is a lot more that ought to be done.

As parents we ought to know that parenting is not only watching your child grow up into a young man or woman but there is more to growing up.Parenting should now be taken seriously like a  full-time job that should have lots of energies channeled through.Even as want our children to grow up into responsible and successful adults,we should also take time to enlighten them more in terms of the bodily changes that came about in different phases of their life.For example a child who is orally exposed on what puberty is all about is better placed than one who has no one to tell him or her about these issues.