Teens are not weirdos

If we are not involved in the lives of our children when they are very young, we can be sure that our children won't let us be involved in their lives when they are older. 

We have lost that golden age of molding them according to the right moral values.

I look at my primary school kids. 

By God's strength, grace n favour, I try my best to steer every child to virtues, being caught by the kids when I say something wrong without malice but nonetheless not edifying to them. 

They are my best critics:)

Start young. 

The younger the better. 

No one knows how each will turn out despite all our prayers n efforts but it's all worth it cos I have seen the fruit.

I think of my niece when she was much younger and now that she's 16. 

For a while, we became a little distant despite me trying to be the most devoted aunt to her before she was born. 

Because we had a strong foundation, because she has parents who love her, because all she wants is just a listening ear before she permits me to speak, therefore we can become closer. 

Now I'm not just her aunt. She calls me her friend.

As an aunt, I do cry over her. What more for parents?

Kids are not weirdos. 

They are just like you n me. 

We just got to rewind the years n remember that we were once so rash, so rude, so naive, so...
It is then that we can seek to understand the mind n heart of a young person...