*A WAKE UP CALL TO PARENTS AND THE YOUTHS*

Years back, *poor illiterate parents* produced
> Doctors,
> Engineers,
> Scientists,
> Accountants,
> Lawyers,
> Architects,
> Professors.., whom I will refer to as *Group 'A'*.

These *Group 'A'* Children struggled on their own after Primary 6 or Grade 12, to become notable personalities. Most of them
> trekked to school *barefooted*
> went to farms
> fetched water and firewood
> cared for domesticated animals
> did some work including trading after school to survive.

Now Group 'A' ,who have now become Parents themselves are *producing Group 'B' Children*
These group B children are
> pampered
> helped in their homeworks or home assignments from nursery school through secondary schools to higher institutions.
> chauffeur driven to very expensive schools or are sent abroad to study.
> they can watch movies from morning till dawn after school.
> they are treated like baby kings and queens.
> they don't do any household chores.
> Food is put on the table for them,
> their plates are removed and washed by parents or house maids.
> They are given expensive cars and clothes,
> not forgetting *big pocket monies to be wasted* !!!.
>Their parents help them in doing their assignments.
In spite of all these, only few can *speak* or *write* correctly.

Group 'A' Parents cared for their own *parents* and *children*, Group 'B',their Children are still *struggling to find their feet at age 30+*
They find it difficult to do things on their own because they are used to being helped to think and doing things by Group 'A'. So they can't help themselves, their parents or the society. *THEY ABANDON THEIR PARENTS IN THEIR BID TO ACQUIRE THE WORLD*

*Where do you belong?*
> Reduce the pampering and the unnecessary help you offer your children.
> Let your children *grow in wisdom, intelligence, discipline and strength*.
Let them face the truth and the realities of life. Teach them to grow to become *independent adults.* Teach them to
* fear God,
* respect others and
* develop confidence in themselves.
Parents, discipline your children to become disciplined adults, *useful* and not *useless.*
It is most certain that our world today has evolved past the era of gridlock and bottled up intuition, inadequacy and ineptitude with an ever challenging model and construct of a global society.
Years of discipline and work pays off than the look out for fast money and fast wealth as its one of the factors evading value for labour and the true meaning and rationale for wealth and equality.
With the craze and abuse of the tech world unchecked, it presents a world industrial and consumer zombie society of smart phones and dumb people which eat hard into the economy of the developing and third world nations which perpetually and consequently cripples the economy.
We are now in an age of smartphone, smart tabs, smart note and smart computer and dumb people. My question is this, how does the importation of technology and other consumer goods into d country help the country's economy its Nominal GDP, and Purchasing Power Parity if not only a drain? Along with the wreckage caused by the abuse of social media whereby our youth expends a large chunk of their resourceful time and waste away. We must encourage our youths to think independently, innovatively, creatively, inventively and uphold value for hard work, moral conducts and good ethics.

The reference and citations of this article is to the credit of the works of George Franklin Guilder, Ben S Bernanke (The Chairman to The US Federal Reserve Bank), Alan Greenspan, ( Ben S Bernanke U.S Federal Reserve Bank Predecessor who served in the Tenure of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush & Bill Clinton whose exit and due retirement in 2007 saw the Forex market Crash and world recession surge in the following year 2008), Lord Adair Turner ( President and Chairman of The Bank of England), Nicolas Nassim Thaleb The Author of Black Swan), Karl Max, Simon Kuznets (a Harvard Economist), Prof Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT Sloan School of Management, Prof Andrew Mcfee (Co Author of the 2nd Machine Age), MIT Darin Acemoglu, Prof Chris Benner (An economist of the University of California), Belle Epoque, Prof Anthony Atkinson(University of California), Prof Emmanuel Saez, Prof Mark Spitznagel (US Hedge Fund Manager, Chairman & Industrial Mogul), Prof Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, Author of Capital in the 21st Century), Russell Hancock and Vivek Wadhwa.

Lets save ourselves the argument in the defence that the Nigerian youths are not lazy, read my article again. An in depth research into the great and well informed works of this great men made me understand that Nigeria is $22 trillion dollar worth in GDP and asset as against the professed $560 billion dollars, while the USA is $18 trillion dollar worth in GDP, the total world GDP is about $60 trillion, while a few individual and inustrialist from the developed world have some $600 trillion starched away somewhere. This implies that the Nigerian government and people can bail itself out cos almost everything you touch in Nigeria is gold.
The truth is that people who blame others for their failures, misfortune and mischievousness will most likely remain a failure for the rest of their life to be seeing and projecting the problem and insecurity of their life on others.
Accept that as a youth, you cannot eat yo cake and yet have it. The school cumulated to the wrath. Our youths have the power to save their future if they want With the courage for agriculture and small scale industrialization.

Alan Greenspan; a one time US Chairman & President of The Federal Reserve Bank once said and I quote..... "The poverty and inequality in the world today is not because man has become more greedy since the history of mankind but that man has found over a thousand and one ways to express and demonstrate his greed in the name of civilization and in the wake of an industrial age."

Quality post. No need to defend the case. We need to go back to the drawing board. Both parties are to blame for the issues raised by the op.