The Anambra governor’s wife, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has asked parents to invest more time in teaching their children the values of love, kindness, and hard work and dwell less on possessions and acquisition of wealth
Mrs Soludo who was speaking in Awka, when she hosted members of the women wing of the Anambra State Association of Town Unions, ASATU, explained that most parents have heaped undue pressure on their children by pushing them to prioritise material gains over basic values of life.
She said that in pursuit of these gains, many children have taken immoral choices just to feel involved in their homes and communities and regretted that basic values like love, respect, kindness and hard work have been undermine in the midst of rising social decadence, restiveness and crimes.
She noted that focusing on negative child raising indoctrinations have eclipsed the traditional methods of raising a child, which combined education and discipline, and called for a renewed social consciousness to tackle the negative outcomes, even as she explained that parents who raise their children to appreciate material possessions over love and hard work, have not only set a very wrong standard for parenting but have set the child’s growth and worldview on a bad path.
Mrs Soludo stated that the increasing emphasis on wealth as a major yardstick for social recognition should be controlled as it is the leading cause of pursuit of riches by any means, and advised that the entire society should take the lead in ensuring that it does not ruin the future.
She also talked about the negative influence of some home movies on children and asked parents and guardians to monitor what their children and wards watch at all times.
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