A legal practitioner, Samson Modupe Olowoyo has urged parents to engage their children in meaningful and purposeful interactions in order to nurture them. He said that intentional parenting is required to challenge the children to brace up for life aspirations and their pursuits.
At the recent graduation ceremony of Grace Children School, Gbagada, Lagos, he further said that developing a robust and virile relationship with children enable them to express their challenges, asserting the crucial role of parental monitoring and supervision.
Olowoyo stated that parents should maintain friendly disposition towards their children so that they, in turn, would be willing to share their fears, aspirations and challenges.
According to the legal practitioner, ‘when parents make friends with their children, they become comfortable to share their experiences..Through this sharing sessions, the parents can properly counsel their children on the best decisions and approach to take in life’.
The Executive Director of Grace Schools, Mrs Olatokunbo Iyiola Edun said that, to nurture the young ones is an arduous task, adding; ‘I enjoin parents to pay maximum attention to the formative years of these children. These years are the springboards upon which their future is hinged. Children need adequate care and parental love. These must not be lacking in any way’.
She said that experiences have shown that children perform poorly and exhibit improper behaviour without parental monitoring.
Edun said that, in over 50 years of existence, the school has been nurturing the pupils to become well rounded in all spheres of life.
According to her, Grace School has a strong commitment to provide superior educational service delivery.
She urged parents to improve on providing attention and proper monitoring in order to make the pupils excel in life.
The Guest Speaker,Mrs. Juliet Adekoya said that parents should be intentional to enhance the learning capabilities of their children.This would enable parents to know the performance of their children academically, she explained.
Adekoya, who is the Chief Executive Officer/Country Representative of AFOA, A German-based governmental organisation, counselled parents to devote more time to review the academic activities of their children.
It is through this intentionality, according to her, that parents could teach their children diligence and resilience.
She spoke of the need for parents to encourage and motivate their children to be diligent and smart in their academic pursuits.
