MY QUESTION IS WHAT CAN BE DONE TO A
CHRONICAL DISOBEDIENT CHILD?
Ben was the last and the only male child among the four girls of his parents.
In a village where boys were highly revered, his birth came as a joy to his parents, especially his father, who needed male child to take over from him.
Thou, his father was prepared to handover all he had so that Ben would become a responsible person and manage his farms and other properties he has.
However, Ben was never serious with anything - he though he had more time ahead and, therefore, loved to play around with some boy's in the near by neighbourhood who were also hardly serious with anything at all.
Because of his association with those boys, Ben picked up the habit of playing truant.
In no time, he was introduced to cigarette smoking and drugs.
Like any responsible father, he advised his son and promised to give him all that he wanted so that he would change.
Instead, he left home to live with his friends, him to abuse of hard drugs.
At a stage, if Ben did not use drug he behave abnormally.
His father could hardly sleep and combed the entire neighbourhood in search of his beloved son, when he finally found him he took Ben to a #psychiatric hospital.
His father was so worried that his health began failing.
During that period, his daughters has completed school and were all gainfully employed. He entrusted the management of his properties to them.
A year later, Ben returned home after a successful treatment. Ben painfully realised that with the exception of his peers who abuse drugs, whose lives had ended up miserably, all the others had achieved significant success with the assistance of his sisters, he went back to school so as to catch up.
But any time he looked back at his past, Ben realised that he had wasted his life and time.
The song on his mouth was always if i should have know" i should have do the right thing at the right time"
My dear brothers and sisters let us make use of every opportunity we have for the only time to make hay is now that the sun shinning. In one word let us do the right thing at the right time.