There are three(3) major excuses parents give, that's........ You know...... Valid. •No time . • Illiteracy • Single parenthood. No matter how good an excuse may be, it's never good enough to earn a reward. There's absolutely no excuse for failing to discipline your children/wards. NO TIME . If a parent cannot /do not spend quality time with their children, it only means one thing, for the parent, the children are not that important. If you can't spend time with your kids and the only excuse you can come up with is I'm working to earn money to put food on the table, to send them to school, to ensure they don't lack in future'. These excuses aren't good enough, if you are doing all these and you don't spend time with your child they would disgrace you. Let me tell you how; . If you can't spend time with them to notice whatever they do wrong, so to discipline them • You can't spend time with them to