Positive Pronouncements

In my last post, I promised to share my personal experience to buttress the fact that parenting actually starts from the inception of pregnancy.

Long before I got married, I have heard a lot of things about pregnancy, delivery, nursing e.t.c but one thing that frightened me most was the idea of having a breech delivery. I had earlier read in a best seller titled “Every Woman” that most babies present their heads during delivery but a few present other parts of the body. The easiest /safest presentation according to the author of the book is the cephalic (head) presentation. So when I got pregnant for the first time after my marriage to John, I immediately began to lay my hands on my tummy while making pronouncements.

What where the pronouncements?

The pronouncement were positive words mixed with faith, they were words like:

(i)Baby is it well with you in Jesus name

(ii)You will grow well in Jesus name

(iii)Whatever I take in through my mouth shall not hurt you in Jesus name

(iv)At the appointed time, you will come out alive, strong and healthy in Jesus name

(v)You will come out with your head and not with any other part of your body in Jesus name

(vi)You will fulfil your define destiny in Jesus name

(vii)Your father and I shall be alive strong and healthy to take good care of you as care takers in Jesus name.

(viii)And so on……..

By the time the baby began to kick, I noticed that we were able to interact more as I kept making positive pronouncement concerning him. You know what; John was not left out of this experience. It was a lovely experience, and by the time of delivery, the baby came out with his head, he was strong, alive and healthy even up till now, apart from the routine immunisation he was given, we have never had any cause to take him to the hospital for any form of treatment because he hardly falls sick, the same goes to his 4 other siblings.

Effect of Positive Pronouncements

Positive Pronouncements made and is still making a world of difference in the lives of my children. The truth is children will always be children but you don’t want to get angry with your children to the extent of calling them names or giving up on them. You just have to continue to say what you want them to become and you shall have it because the tongue carries a lot of power.

In my next post, I will be talking about Godly parenting which is the basis of serious parenting. The truth is that we did not create ourselves; neither did we create these children so the earlier we start taking parenting as a very serious assignment the better for us and the society at large.