The Chairman, Parents and Teachers Association, Oye Local Government, Alhaji Prince Amusa Adeyemi has admonished Nigerian children to honour and care for their fathers, saying fathers pivotal roles at homes and society cannot be quantified.
Prince Amusa in a statement made available to PRECISE NEWS said the admonition became imperative considering the ways and manners children of nowadays misconstrued their fathers on certain issues which made them not duly recognized.
The founder, PRO Communication, known for building faiths among Christians and Muslims in Ilupeju Ekiti described children’s perception of their fathers thus-
THE BEST PERSON IN OUR LIFE WHOM WE TEND NOT EASILY RECOGNISE IS OUR DADS.
LET THEM KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THAT DAD WAS THE BEST.
* It takes a LIFETIME to realize that one’s “DAD IS THE BEST”
* WHEN I WAS 4 YEARS OLD, –
– I knew my dad to be THE BEST…
* WHEN I WAS 6, I ALSO-
– knew Dad to have KNOWN IT ALL…
* WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OF AGE, –
– I knew Dad to be GOOD.
* WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS-
– I began to think that Dad wasn’t AS GOOD as he was when I was a little boy…
* WHEN I WAS 14 YEARS OLD, –
– I began discovering him to be MORE TEMPERAMENTAL AND STRICT than ever before…
* WHEN I WAS 16, –
– I was convinced that he was AN OLD SCHOOL, and was not up to standard – to the current times we live in…
* WHEN I TURNED 18, –
– I thought Dad was very INTOLERANT AND HARD TO COMMUNICATE with & also difficult to get along with…
* WHEN I TURNED 20, –
– I realized that he wasn’t an EASY PERSON, and began wondering how Mum was able to put up with him in all the years of marriage…
* WHEN I TURNED 25, –
– it seemed like he HAD MANY OBJECTIONS to everything that I did…
* WHEN I TURNED 30, –
– I was convinced that we were NOT ON THE SAME PAGE and that nothing would ever please him…
* WHEN I TURNED 40, –
– I then only began to realize HOW GOOD MY UPBRINGING WAS, and that I should also raise my kids in the same way…
* WHEN I WAS 45, –
– I started wondering how Dad ever put up with all THE CHALLENGES he faced with us whilst we were growing up …
* WHEN I BECAME 50, –
– I realized HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS FOR DAD TO HAVE EDUCATED US and tried to instil good manners
in us,
– thus I began wondering how he managed to TOLERATE our excesses
* WHEN I WAS 55 YEARS OF AGE, –
– I only then started realizing THE WISDOM & FORESIGHT my Dad had of life in getting us to where we are today…
* WHEN I TURNED 60, –
– ONLY then did I eventually realize that “MY DAD WAS THE BEST”
SUMMING IT UP IT SIMPLY MEANS THAT:
* It takes a LIFETIME to realize the true status of OUR FATHER. It takes us A LIFE CYCLE to really appreciate our father.
* The difference being, –
– as teens growing up, we selfishly view life within the confines of our own interests,
– whilst our fathers view life selflessly, sacrificing everything for us.
* Sadly, we sometimes fail to understand that our father is always our well WISHER.
* At 40 only, do we then start to realize that what we believed when we were 4 to be true…
* Some are fortunate to have realized their father’s true value whilst their father is living, whilst others have unfortunately realized when it was too late
– after their father has departed from this world;
– It’s a painful guilt to live with.
* So children, please –
listen to, obey, and
– Honour your father WHO LOVES YOU, and sacrifices all for your good.