Education is regarded as a tool for liberation and self-actualization. This is not the case with Northern Nigerian child whose life is that of survival of the fittest. The Northern child is a victim of circumstance who has to source for himself to make the two ends meet. Many of these children roam the streets looking for where to lay their heads in addition to begging for food. A Northern child is compelled by his parents to start a life of his own without adequate guidance or supervision. Adequate parenting requires providing the child with basic needs of life in terms food, clothing, shelter, psychological needs and enrollment of child in school with proper monitoring so as to make the child productive to himself and the society he belongs to. On this note, this paper intends to investigate the attitude of some of the northern parents towards the education of their children and reveal the benefits of education to their wards. It further highlights the importance of adequate parenting as a factor for breeding children who will be responsible to contribute meaningfully to development of the nation, not those who will be misled and be used against the progress of the nation. Recommendations are made to parents, stakeholders and government to come to the aid of the northern children to eradicate insurgency in the country because an idle hand is a temple for evil.
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