GOOD MORALS ARE INCULCATED, NOT INHERITED

It is important to note that humans are very good at learning things from each other. Be it an adult or a child. Every one learns. Sometimes they learn something good and sometimes they end up learning the bad.

Sadly we learn the bad habits fast from ourselves. I remember when I was a little girl and we live together in a compound with Idoma people. It did not take me time to learn the words they use for insult. But I took real time to learn all the good vocabulary in their language. That is why children learn bad things fast and you will take the whole year teaching that child how to be a good child before it will enter into that child and begin to work.

Good morals are learnt and not inherited from parents. My mother did her best to inculcate good character into me. I remember back then when I will easily forget what she told me and do the opposite. She will still insist I do the right thing after all. Most times she spank me again and again before it sticks same here today. No child is born with good morals of character. We all learn from the people around us when we are growing up.

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EXAMPLES
Drunkenness: My mother has it as a habit to drink strong drink. As a child then I don't know how it taste or what it does to the body. I decided to have a taste of it one day when my mum left one unfinished. After taking it, I noticed that it was not sweet as I thought, but it didn't stop me from drinking the next time I heard the opportunity.

SMOKING: When I became a teenager, some of my friends smoke and I had it in mind to taste it one day to know how it feels to smoke. I believe that God decided to save me from that when I was taken out of that environment to another place. If I had continued, I believe that by now I would have been addicted to smoking.

Immorality: My friends taught me how to make my own boyfriend back then and even when my mother was against it I went on and had one who almost ruined my life if not for God's love that brought me out of that life. I don't really know what I would have become.

CHILDREN WHO TURNED OUT BAD DESPITE HAVING GREAT PARENTS

I have lots of examples. Like I said earlier when I started. Children can learn from outside and thereby bringing shame to the parents.

There is this pastor who had a child that made him pray that God should take that child back. It happened as he wanted. The child went out one day to see his girlfriend and saw her with another guy. He started fighting and got himself killed at the process. I remember the very words of his father on the day of the burial. He said that God has taken away the child that brought so much shame to his family.

I also believe that children also learn alot from the parents. Sometimes we may see the parents outside and think they are good, when you get closer you will understand. Parents can hide their bad character but children can not hide it.