The Task Before Today's Parents
Photo credit: YouTube.com WAKE UP, PARENTS! Years back, poor illiterate parents produced doctors, engineers, scientists, accountants, lawyers, architects, professors, whom I will refer to as GROUP 'A'. These GROUP 'A' Children struggled on their own after Primary 6 or secondary school education, to become notable personalities. Most of them walked to school barefooted, went to farms, fetched water and firewood, cared for domesticated animals, did some work including trading after school to survive, acquired handcraft skills such as basket-weaving, broom-making etc. and used the money realised to support their personal upkeep. Now, GROUP 'A' ,who have become parents themselves, are producing GROUP 'B' Children. These GROUP 'B' Children are pampered, helped in their homework or home assignments from nursery schools through secondary schools to tertiary institutions, chauffeur-driven to very expensive schools or sent abroad to study. They can