Ideal Parent
“Certainly if anyone does not provide for those who are member of his household, he has disowned the faith and his worse than a person without faith” says the scriptures. Those inspired words placed a huge responsibility on husband and wife in raising their children in the discipline and mental regulation of Jehovah. Parents are like corner stone or foundation to their children, on which they look forward to for support. They are also like a shelter for their children in favorable and unfavorable seasons. Parent have responsibility toward their children in order to be an ideal parent, such responsibilities are providing for the family basic needs, showing love and care for the children, and training the children spiritually, morally, and mentally. The foremost responsibility of a parent is providing food, clothe, and shelter for the family. Its will be unreasonable for a parent after given birth to abandon the child to find food, clothe, and shelter on his own. Doing that will mean such a husband and wife are not competent to be a parent. Children rely on their parent for material support and if parent fails to provide this, the children will have to struggle vigorously to succeed in live. However, most of the child that falls into such category engaged in different sort of bad habit such as gambling, stealing, drunkenness, and drug abuse. Therefore, in order to be an ideal parent it is paramount for husband and wife to provide food, cloth, and shelter for their children. If a parent provide for the family adequately, there will be no reason for the children to steal food, cloth, or to be wandering round the streets with bad guys. An ideal parent demonstrates love and care to their children. A loving and caring parent never toys with their children’s need, they provide their basic needs and are always ready to help them in favorable and troublesome seasons. A loving and caring parent always look after their child, they wonder where they are, what they