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Fundamentals of Society-Building: How the Near-Absent Reading Habit Affects Parents and Children In the Developing Countries of the World.

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This writer thought of a good scheme to make more readers visit this blog site in order to get as many parents and parents-to-be as possible get the benefit of this high quality content of this site with respect to Proper Parenting of Children in Formative Years, only to have the shocker of his life.

Even his closest associates in his own church's men's social media group that were preparing for the celebration of their Men's Ministry's Day within that period of time could not find time to visit this blog site as requested by this author using their social media group platform.

Meanwhile, this author was struggling with the determination to get the site well rated for its content being somewhat unsure of its ranking and rating for listing, by relevant high-tech platforms, like Google.

What was responsible for this failure to visit this blog site even once by each of these people targeted for the content on this blog site? It wasn't that the people involved were not interested in the content of this blog site or not internet savvy, it was rather that a good number of them had little reading habit acquired over time. 

This author had earlier gone ahead to publish the content of the eBook, Proper Parenting of Children in Formative Years, by C. N. C. Ejiofor on this free platform because the hard copy would suffer more as a result of same poor reading habit. Moreover, the hard copies would be sold at a cost which will worsen the challenge it would pose for people who consider money spent on books as almost a waste, as there is near-absence of reading culture in the developing economies of our planet earth.

Yet even when the content on parenting was presented here on a platter of gold, those who needed the ideas, concepts, precepts and other relevant information on this blog site most, could not make the most of this great opportunity to have the benefits just for the asking.

Ignorance, we all know, is a great deformity. It doesn't matter if the ignorant person is a graduate, a been-to or any other social, religious, or cultural class.

Of course, the contents of the much-talked-about eBook, Proper Parenting of Children in Formative Years, by C. N. C. Ejiofor, lends itself to every family on earth today because of the transcendent qualities of the contents.

The losers due to this lapse are not only the parents, but also the children who appear to be left to rote with respect to their proper up-bringing.

How then can we achieve this success in ensuring that our children are not left to chance in matters of good behaviors, attitudes and characters in order to reduce the ugly as well as devastating influences of deviance, delinquency, cultism, terrorism, et al, on our societies today?

That is apparently a big nut to crack, possibly by those in leadership positions who may need to draw up policies and programmes, as well as enact laws to facilitate conducive environments for creating and sustaining a progressive reading culture that would engender proper reading habits for the peoples in developing countries of this planet earth. This is, to say the least, a very urgent need. 

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