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Teachers are intentional people; they structure out the exact knowledge they want to pass across, systematically pass the same, and patiently repeat the process when need be until a lesson is learned. Jochebed must have been intentional for Moses to learn about his identity within the short period he has to be held in her hands.

Despite the short time that Moses spent with his mother, it was clear to him that he was an Israelite and developed a great hatred for the task masters of his real people.

When you can be the first to teach your child what he or she should know, our text today says it will be difficult for such a child to depart from it, and this was seen in the relationship of Jochebed and Moses, despite the fact that Moses only lived with her for a few times, yet she learnt a lot to the extent that he could literally identify with the suffering of his real people

Schooling is amazingly interesting, and the professional teachers are to be praised from time to time, but parents are the first teachers positioned by God to be encountered as children begin to find their path in the world around them.

Monitoring is a systematic process of observing and reviewing the progress or quality of a task’s performance over a period of time. Parenting is an area of discipline that requires consistent monitoring. Hence, a parent needs to be observant and faithful to pay close attention to changes in his or her child.

Jochebed (the mother of biblical Moses) was a strategic mother. She understands time and seasons and knows how to take advantage of opportunities. She is a mother who has an end in sight. Through inspiration, she crafted a concise basket that will not sink her child but sail him into the fulfillment of his life purpose.

Parenting is a task that requires high focus, which is why everyone who will be involved in it is advised not to be lured or pushed into it accidentally, by circumstance, or for any selfish purpose. Parenting must be a choice made deliberately because of its consuming nature.

Truly, parenting is becoming more challenging in recent times than it was in the past, following the position of the world economy, which has played a major role in influencing gender roles and throwing many parents out of balance.

Children can endure a lot and hide a lot, especially those who are introverts or children whose parents barely have time for them. Knowing the details around your child per time will require a lot of sensitivity and involvement. Give it a good shot, this season and you can only be grateful to God for the outcome.

All through January, the subject of understanding the concept of parenting was in view, and we defined the acronyms of P.A.R.E.N.T. as Patient-Admirer-Realistic-Enduring-Nearest-Teacher. Having taught on what the Lord expected of us as parents through the first four letters of the acronyms, going forward we will be looking at N-nearest, which suggests that parents are the first contacts that a child has immediately after birth, and this continues until the child begins preparatory school.