Are you a blessing or a curse?

I saw a video of the rapper who just passed on, DMX(may his soul Rest In Peace) and I was broken! I hadn’t heard of or known him before his death but I was moved with so much emotion because I know some teenagers are going through what he went through. He had a troubled childhood, lots of abuse from his mother and her many boyfriends, to stop the abuse, he ran away from home at age 14 and lived on the streets. He became addicted to crack cocaine as a teenager when a man he loved and looked up to tricked him into smoking a marijuana cigarette laced with the drug.... “Who does that to a child, I will never do that to my worst enemy!”, he said in the video with tears in his eyes... ********************************************** It is easy and convenient to haul abusive words at children who go south but we fail to dig into the root and see where it start from.... We treat children as if they are not human and we expect them to be humane, aren’t we hypocrites! Are you a blessing to that child under your care, ....whether biological child, niece or nephew, house help, nanny, grandchild, neighbor’s child, pupil/student or whatever or you are a curse? You want to know if you are a curse? Listen up.. When you hit the child mercilessly at every mistake he/she makes. When you reduce the child to nothing by your words, all sorts of unprintable names..emotional abuse. When you deprive the child of basic needs, food,shelter, education,clothing... When you over labour the child, no resting time, after all, you have paid for her services! When you allow your biological children maltreat your help(who is a child). When you introduce a child to inappropriate and adult content, e.g drug, porn, stealing and other vices. When you sexually abuse a child. When you neglect a child to fend for him/herself. When you take advantage of a child’s vulnerability and innocence in any capacity. When you don’t listen to the child and shut him/her down in any attempt to speak up. When you think you know all because you are an adult and downplay the child’s creativity. When you abuse the child and allow others to do same. When you watch and do nothing positive when a child is being abused. When you don’t speak up for a child ...especially when you have the capacity to do so and effect positive change or justice. When you use your position or office to cover up an abuse against a child. When you fail to train a child,....you indulge him/her and making him to be a liability to himself and others. If you fall into any of this category, YOU. ARE. A. CURSE! Repent today! Pic: a mother tied her son to a chair with a rope on his neck. I watched the full video, she had to use scissors to cut the rope because she couldn’t untie it at the end 😢 i