Breaking the generational cycle
My late dad liked reminding his children who would listen that we largely managed to get through secondary education through the giving spirit in the society. He would remind us that had several members of the community but be willing to help him fundraise for our education then we wouldn't have been educated into our high school stages. He liked the analogy that people would see kids as very many but a parent who takes their children to school reduces them to one. That even when you have ten children who are well educated, as a parent there would be literally no baggage you will feel as they come of age as they will all collectively feel like only one child. He liked adding that had we not gone to school, our home would be chaotic with siblings literally fighting physically and some beating him and our mothers up. He would wrap up most of these tales by asking that we give back to the society that made us who we are by the acts of philanthropic giving whenever he needed support to...
