The teenage stage of life is one of the interesting stage in the human life. It is a stage where many people today made or marred their entire life. The teenage stage of life serves as the intermediary between the childhood stage and the early twenty’s of every human life. Thus it’s the period when one passes away from the childish behaviours into the full grown man.
At this period, many are able to put away the childish things and build up themselves into a full man or woman but many also fail to understand that they are growing and that something’s needs to be changed in their ways of doing things (hence, habit are then created). Such persons grow up behaving like little children.
One may ask how does this affect the teens spending habit and I will say that it affects it a lot with the fact that all teens where sometimes little children and little children demand a lot from their parents not caring or taking to thought how the fund to all they are demanding for comes from and those parents that are wealthy feel very comfortable when they get their children what they wanted but as time goes on, little children grows up to the stage of demanding for pocket money and is as much as our parents have the cash and to make sure their children are happy, they will give to their children ; this continues to early teenage stage.
The ways to make teens change their spending habits are very easy to say but are not really followed by the teenagers because it entails denying yourself from some momentary self comfort.
When I was in my early teenage stage, my late father always gives me some pocket money for lunch at school and will also take me in his car to the school every morning before going to work and I was very good at gathering all my friends to the canteen during break and buying food for them all. I was not disturbed because I was very sure that my father was going to give me money for lunch the next day. It continued that way for two years in my Secondary School when suddenly one morning, I woke my father up from bed to go and get prepared and take me to the school but he could not get up from the bed. I could not believe that could have happened so sudden but I experienced it that day. My fathers driver toke me to school that morning after taking my dad to the hospital and never gave me pocket money it was real hot with me from that very day because I had no lunch and I have been used to the habit of always spending during lunch and other times. It affected me in almost every part of my being and I will like to let you know that if I have reduced the way I’ve been spending when I had the fund as a teen I would have had some savings to use after the very day I lost my dad but reverse was the case. So we should mind the way we spend from our teenage stage to avoid the untellable tomorrow.
Below are some ways to make teens change their spending habits:
1. Parents should always warn there children from their teenage to be careful the way they use their pocket money because it can disturb them tomorrow when there is no provision for pocket money.
2. Teens should spend with tomorrow in mind
3. Teens should not venture into spending that they will regret later; so be wise today and know the right way to spend your resources.
There are varieties of ways teens spend not just what is explicitly stated here but in various other ways so let’s all endeavour to check the way we spend our time, knowledge, skill, talent, etc and cultivate a good spending habit.
Most fathers and mothers of today that have much money and resources to spend today had none to spend at their teen age and they are having at adulthood to spend the way they like.
Be wise now as teens because nobody knows what tomorrow hold to the teens of today.
Cheers!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
THE FACT ABOUT DRINKING.
Drinking is one of the various ways of life. Every living creature drink liquids to survive. Humans drinks water to sustain life in the body, animals drinks water to also sustain life in their body, plants also tap water through their roots to be able to grow well, etc. but specifically in humans, we don’t only drink just water but so many other things that are liquid for one reason or the other. Drinks are of many types and serve for so many purpose for example in my culture, giving a cup of water to a visitor to drink shows a symbol of welcome and acceptance of the visitor to your home and also, giving a cold bottle of soft drink also shows a welcome appreciation.
Drinking is part of life for every living thing because we must drink something in a liquid form everyday as long as we’re living. We drink either liquids or another kind of liquid substance either for the good of our body or for the gradual devastation of our body. Yes I said for the good or devastation of our body because there are several types of liquids that are available on earth and all are not for drinking. These liquids may include water, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, chemicals, etc. these various kinds of liquids serve various purposes; like water serve all purpose because it is widely used both by living and non-living things. Soft drinks are meant for human refreshment in times of relaxation, party and for fun. Soft drinks are made in such a way that it does not intoxicate but due to the fact that “excess of every thing is bad”, when soft drinks are taken in excess can still result to some problem like diabetes in the human body and this is because of the sugar and other chemical contents used in the production of some soft drinks.
Also, alcoholic drinks are also drinks that are used by human during relaxation, party and for fun. It intoxicates when taken in excess but in our society today it is seen as the category of drinks that if taken at excess with the ability to still stand strong makes or proves a real man. Hence many in the process have been sent to their early grave while it was not yet time for their death. Peer groups in the society, colleagues at work places, and course mates at colleges with wrong knowledge of the use of alcoholic drinks have sent many to their early graves in one way or the other. Alcoholic drinks were made mainly for people that stay in a cold temperature region so that when taken will keep their body worm and the cold environment will not disturb them much but today, due to migration of people from one country to another, strong alcoholic drinks that were made for the use of people in low temperature regions have been moved to people in high temperature region without also conveying the aim of the production of strong alcoholic drinks to the people in the high temperature region.
Now, people take alcoholic without reason as such it destroys their body system faster than normal. I lost my father at as a teenager because of two things. One because he was too proud to take advice from his wife and son; secondly because he could not control his emotion. My late father has so many friends that loved drinking every blessed day and that made him loved drinking. I and my mother noticed it on time and told to stop but he said it was because of his friends that he always goes out with then we told to stop drinking outside but feel free to drink at home. He agreed and stopped drinking for sometime but because he could not control his emotion he followed his friend to the drinking bar on the 20th of May 2003 to drink. After drinking that day night with his usual high blood pressure because he was thinking too much that period, the following morning which was on 21st May, 2003 I tried waking him up from bed so he could go and take his bath but he could not we rushed him to the hospital for check-up and treatment but by 10pm that same day he died. It was a great shock on all his friends and my family. His best friend could not branch any drinking bar for two good months after he heard of my late father’s death but because he was addicted to drinking alcoholic drinks, he finally got himself back into it.
Yes drinking does not destroy immediately, but it destroys gradually. The best friend of my late father accidentally died also of high blood pressure according to medical report and the report that he was seen drinking alcoholic drinks on the 1st of July, 2009. He died the 2nd of July, 2009 at 4.00am in the hospital. Six years was enough period of time for my late father’s friend to have changed but he could not control his emotion towards drinking.
Don’t just put intensions to change the way you drink specifically alcoholic drinks but put action to your intension. Don’t get it twisted “emotion is stronger than knowledge”.
Drink wisely.
Stay posted for more hints.
Cheers!
Drinking is part of life for every living thing because we must drink something in a liquid form everyday as long as we’re living. We drink either liquids or another kind of liquid substance either for the good of our body or for the gradual devastation of our body. Yes I said for the good or devastation of our body because there are several types of liquids that are available on earth and all are not for drinking. These liquids may include water, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, chemicals, etc. these various kinds of liquids serve various purposes; like water serve all purpose because it is widely used both by living and non-living things. Soft drinks are meant for human refreshment in times of relaxation, party and for fun. Soft drinks are made in such a way that it does not intoxicate but due to the fact that “excess of every thing is bad”, when soft drinks are taken in excess can still result to some problem like diabetes in the human body and this is because of the sugar and other chemical contents used in the production of some soft drinks.
Also, alcoholic drinks are also drinks that are used by human during relaxation, party and for fun. It intoxicates when taken in excess but in our society today it is seen as the category of drinks that if taken at excess with the ability to still stand strong makes or proves a real man. Hence many in the process have been sent to their early grave while it was not yet time for their death. Peer groups in the society, colleagues at work places, and course mates at colleges with wrong knowledge of the use of alcoholic drinks have sent many to their early graves in one way or the other. Alcoholic drinks were made mainly for people that stay in a cold temperature region so that when taken will keep their body worm and the cold environment will not disturb them much but today, due to migration of people from one country to another, strong alcoholic drinks that were made for the use of people in low temperature regions have been moved to people in high temperature region without also conveying the aim of the production of strong alcoholic drinks to the people in the high temperature region.
Now, people take alcoholic without reason as such it destroys their body system faster than normal. I lost my father at as a teenager because of two things. One because he was too proud to take advice from his wife and son; secondly because he could not control his emotion. My late father has so many friends that loved drinking every blessed day and that made him loved drinking. I and my mother noticed it on time and told to stop but he said it was because of his friends that he always goes out with then we told to stop drinking outside but feel free to drink at home. He agreed and stopped drinking for sometime but because he could not control his emotion he followed his friend to the drinking bar on the 20th of May 2003 to drink. After drinking that day night with his usual high blood pressure because he was thinking too much that period, the following morning which was on 21st May, 2003 I tried waking him up from bed so he could go and take his bath but he could not we rushed him to the hospital for check-up and treatment but by 10pm that same day he died. It was a great shock on all his friends and my family. His best friend could not branch any drinking bar for two good months after he heard of my late father’s death but because he was addicted to drinking alcoholic drinks, he finally got himself back into it.
Yes drinking does not destroy immediately, but it destroys gradually. The best friend of my late father accidentally died also of high blood pressure according to medical report and the report that he was seen drinking alcoholic drinks on the 1st of July, 2009. He died the 2nd of July, 2009 at 4.00am in the hospital. Six years was enough period of time for my late father’s friend to have changed but he could not control his emotion towards drinking.
Don’t just put intensions to change the way you drink specifically alcoholic drinks but put action to your intension. Don’t get it twisted “emotion is stronger than knowledge”.
Drink wisely.
Stay posted for more hints.
Cheers!
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