May 27: Parents Becoming ‘Too Busy’ for Their Children

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In commemoration of this year’s celebration on May 27, the African Students Education Support Initiative (ASESI) has called on parents to pay more attention to their children.

ASESI’s Executive Director, Chinonso Obasi, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said that in the present-day society, parents were becoming too busy for their children.

He said that parents had left the responsibility of training children alone to schools and the hands of caregivers.

According to Obasi, the first school a child attends in life is her home while the first teacher a child has is her parents.

Obasi said that parents had greater work to do on children than the school teachers.

“Parents spend more time at home with the kids, and children who learn from observation are always too inquisitive and in-turn requires parents who pay attention to proffer answers at all time.

“ASESI has done a lot of interventions in schools and we received complaints from teachers stating that parents no longer do enough in guiding their children at home.

“To groom children requires joint efforts of the parents and teachers, when parents play their roles by monitoring their wards at home, that make our work as teachers easier as parents feedback plays tremendous assistance to guiding teacher’s attention.

“When children advance without proper bonding with their parents, peer pressure becomes inevitable and the child will result in consulting outsiders of solutions.”

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