Last Updated on February 15, 2021 by admin
Peek-a-boo!
Sometime, handling a whole national football team, a corporate organization, a school, or even pastoring a church might just be a child’s play when compared to handling a home!; especially with more of the toddlers around who need more time, tender care and full attention if we must see that which we so much desire from our toiling to make them go the way they should go and to keep them within the sight and grasps of the generous creator. Despite this seemingly challenging situation, every man still clings to his state of grandiosity of being the ‘Man in charge!’ Guess we really are God helping us!
There is a way you become your child/children’s favorite, so much that he reserves certain ‘naturally’ mummy’s responsibilities for you even when you return fagued out from work late in the night, and as a man who cannot afford any loophole, you take up the challenge, and this despite yourself.
Imagine my 3-year-old boy insisting he would not eat until Daddy gets back from work, and when I did, -nobody dares go near his meal!
Mummy, my daddy will feed me!
And as if that is not enough, he goes to the toilet some few minutes later and insists again; Mummy, my daddy will clean for me!
Whether lovingly or grudgingly, I had to fly to do the ‘poopoo’ sanitation. Same goes for dressing, sometime bathing etc; but believe you me, when a situation arises that needs some backing up, say which food to eat, films to watch, games to play etc., my boy certainly will vote for me. This is not to say that he does not like his mother, but there are certain events that generated this bond. These include some types of games we normally play- soccer, wrestling, nursery and ‘Sunday school’ rhymes, hide-and-seek and especially the ‘Peek-a-boo’, which we did more when he was much younger and which I believe is responsible for our enviable relationship.
Peek-a-boo is a game played to amuse small children, in which the face is hidden in the hands and then suddenly uncovered as peek-a-boo is shouted; what we may call the ‘boju boju’ (hide-and-seek) version in our own society.
The lesson in this is that there are lots of responsibilities that come with holding a ‘special office’ such as being a husband and especially a FATHER. So, we must be prepared to live up to expectation especially when these God’s heritage becomes more numerous. Do not be surprised if for the rapport you have generated with your children, each now prefers you to follow mummy to all PTAs, school parties and games; and at any inter-house sports you show up, each of these kids picks on you to take part in the 100M dash for parents….’my daddy will run for me!’…meaning…You must also be physically fit.
Like I would always say, if you recognize God as the head of the family and the One truly in charge, you are bound to be able to do all things through Him.
-‘bayo edunjobi©