Dear Prudence,
Since every aspect of parenting points on how to teach children to make the right decisions, the ability to make such decisions lies in you, prudence. You are one of the four cardinal virtues along with fortitude, justice, and temperance. According to philosophers, you are the mother of these virtues, and without you, they can not practice effectively. Even other virtues like obedience, generosity, courage, and so on also require the practice of you, prudence to be effective.
Dear Prudence,
With you, people are reflective and thoughtful of the consequences of their actions before carrying it out. You make people empathetic, valued, respectful, and loyal in relationships.
Dear Prudence,
With you, people always determine where to talk, know when to talk and when to stay silent, when to give opinion, when to give boundaries, when to interfer in a discussion, how to criticize, when to be constructive and how to discern good and bad.
Dear Prudence,
You are a practical wisdom, one key moral, and intellectual value. You are well regarded and highly placed in morals because of your ability to apply conscious and right reasoning of what needs to be done and how it needs to be done for a desired end. You differentiate craft knowledge from practical wisdom. You make one to think before acting, to ignore the less important things, and focus on high yielding goals.
Dear Prudence,
Because you are the practical wisdom that unites heart and head in decision making, you make one learn from past mistakes while understanding the present situation. With you, ones sense of likely consequences of actions is ignited, and ones awareness of his strengths and weaknesses is aligned to practical intelligence. You make one forsee both opportunities and risks. You are a bridge virtue that connects justice, temperance, and courage to reason and judgment in moral activities.
We therefore seek dear Prudence,
For this generation and future ones, to be groomed with integrated ability for decision making at the individual, family, group, community, and government level. For people to make economic and social prudent choices for their sake and for the sake of others. For everyone to serve the good of all with the support of the majority and for other virtues that work with prudence (temperance, justice, and courage) to be activated effectively and successfully in every act of decision making.
Dear Prudence
We ask for the children and youths to attain financial prudence and stop spending on frivolities to the detriment of their future. For them to stop wasting money on buying branded cloths, gadgets, electronics, fast foods, and many other extravagant lifestyle but rather set goals and invest in their future and dreams. For our children and youths to have the vision to forsee both risks and opportunities in worthwhile ventures and to make good decisions in pursuing them. For them to be more independent, more responsible, and less entitled.
We know dear Prudence that financial prudence is a great tool to combat the hunger and struggling economy of any nation. We seek the children and youths to be properly knowledgeable in financial issues. This would result in stability in homes, communities, and the nation. We believe, dear Prudence, that if you’re applied at the grassroot level of any plan or project, many problems in society would be conquered. May our leaders imbibe your virtues and moral characters to be able to serve the good for all in their political ambition.
Dear Prudence,
May you lead us to know the right things to do, to apply wisdom on practical matters, to be tactful in leading a good life and to embibe the good habit of deliberate, rational and effective thought in choosing the worthy means of attaining a morally good and worthy end.
BIBLE VERSE
Proverbs 16:22
Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools
PROVERB
Àgúnbàjẹ́ ni tolódó
Pounding-until-it-is-ruined is the habit of the owner of the mortar Yoruba Proverb.
RIDDLE
What force and strength could not get through I with a gentle touch can do And many in the street would stand,
Were I not as a friend at hand. What am I?
Amara Ann Unachukwu
