The Bad Habits in Every Child - Article
This week is the end of the year party for the pupils in our school where I chaplain. We are planning to hand out our school yearly magazine to the pupils and the parents, especially to our graduating pupils who are going into higher classes and those going to a new school.
As the Spiritual overseer in the school, I needed to give out my own piece of fatherly advice to them in the form of an article of publsication. So, I chose this topic.
KILL THAT BAD HABIT!
Bad habits
are those behaviours or acts that are not acceptable. Some bad habits are
offensive and irritating. Some of them cause discomfort to the person who
practises and others around him or her as well.
There is no
single gain in bad habit rather it attracts hatred and punishment to the person
who has it. In other cases, some bad habits may cause the person who practises
it to fall sick and even the person next to him or her. Just relax and read the
short stories about people with bad habits. Find out how it affected them.
- NOSE PICKING:
Abebe is a nose picker. A nose picker is someone
who picks mucous in his or her nose always. This is a bad habit. Abebe does not
only pick his nose, he picks his ears too and puts whatever he picks into his
mouth.
Abebe
teacher dislikes him because of this habit. He does not have a friend in his
class. Everybody avoids him because what he does is irritating. More so, he
always falls sick. He needs to KIIL NOSE PICKING HABIT.
- TOILET HABIT:
Mrs Tobi always takes her two kids
to the hospital. They are always vomiting. They have stomach upsets and
frequent diarrhoea. This woman is the cause of her children’s illness. Each
time she goes to the toilet to urinate and defecate, she does not wash her
hands after. She prepares her children’s food with dirty and contaminated
hands.
Mrs Tobi
needs to kill this habit or her dirtiness will kill her children. When you
visit the toilet and you fail to wash your hands after, it is a bad habit. Kill
that bad habit!
- FINGER SUCKING/BITING:
There are two persons that I know.
I will not mention their names. They are a boy and a girl. They have this bad
habit called FINGER SUCKING. Their friends call them “suck suck”. Their
neighbours call them “suck suck international limited”. They are always sick.
Anytime there is a disease outbreak, they are the first to catch the disease.
They pick or
touch all manner of dirt with their hands and at the end of the day; they put their
fingers in their mouths to suck or bite their fingernails. This is a very bad
habit. Aside from getting infected, anyone who sucks his or her finger hardly concentrates
in the class. He or she is always absent-minded. A child who sucks his or her finger does not do well academically. If you have this habit, this is the time
to KILL IT.
- BEGGING HABIT:
The word of God tells us to be
contented with whatever we have. Begging habit is associated with gluttony
(long throat). Gluttony is associated with the Pig spirit. The pig eats anything it
sees at all times. Pig does not say no. Pig does not see food and look away
whether clean or dirty.
God has not
given us the spirit of Pig. Any pupil that begs for sweets, gala, Bobo milk
drink, Chi happy hour, and butter pie, lunch from his or her fellow pupils has
“Begging habit”. This is the worst of the bad habit. Someone can get initiated
into witchcraft through begging. Long throat and begging have rendered many
destinies useless. Stop gluttony today; KILL THE HABIT.
In summary, there is nothing good about bad habits. The time has come! KILL THAT BAD HABIT!