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Better parenting needed, says Thwaites
Published: Sunday | June 2, 2013 0 Comments
Barbara Gayle, Justice CoordinatorEducation Minster Ronald Thwaites has encouraged parents to play a pivotal role in their Children lives by passing on good family values.
Addressing the congregation at the Riverton Meadows Seventh-day Adventist Church in ST. Andrew recently, Thwaites bemoaned the failure of some parents to be fully involved in the lives of their children.
According to Thwaites, he recently visited a school where a student was murdered and found out that the parents of the student who allegedly did the killing were not together.
In addition, neither parent was adequately caring for the either the alleged child killer or his siblings.
"Too often, we find this happening. So today is a big call to this congregation and a call to the churches, generally, to lift up parenting," said Thwaites.
He urged churches to open their facilities to parents and help them to learn more about good parenting.
"Jamaica will only truly change when there are strong parents who take the best care of their children and guide them along the right path," said Thwaites.
FORM STABLE RELATIONSHIPS
He urged the children and young adults to ensure that when they become adults they look for a stable partnership "that will be blessed by God and with God's help the relationship can last for a lifetime".
The education minister argued that children did their best when they had both parents in the home.
Pointing to the Children's Day theme for this year, 'Treasure Our Children', Thwaites outlined some of the ways in which parents could treasure these gifts from the Lord.
"We must not kill them - whether in the womb or whether by our behaviour and treatment."
Thwaites called on parents to send their children to church as he argued that there is scientific evidence, right here in Jamaica, that the children who attend Sabbath school and Sunday school become better students and better citizens.
"No matter how many schools and great churches we build, parents are the ones who have been given the responsibility by God to bring children into the world and raise them, but many of them have not been good parents," declared Thwaites.
He argued that the worst thing slavery did for Jamaica was to break down the African family traditions, as quite often now children are in difficulties because parents are not attentive to them.
Pastor Devon Osbourne, secretary of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, in welcoming Thwaites, described him as a humble, committed and caring person.
Osbourne called on parents to do their best to mould the lives of the children, who he described as the future of nation and the future of the church.
Published: Sunday | June 2, 2013 0 Comments
Barbara Gayle, Justice CoordinatorEducation Minster Ronald Thwaites has encouraged parents to play a pivotal role in their Children lives by passing on good family values.
Addressing the congregation at the Riverton Meadows Seventh-day Adventist Church in ST. Andrew recently, Thwaites bemoaned the failure of some parents to be fully involved in the lives of their children.
According to Thwaites, he recently visited a school where a student was murdered and found out that the parents of the student who allegedly did the killing were not together.
In addition, neither parent was adequately caring for the either the alleged child killer or his siblings.
"Too often, we find this happening. So today is a big call to this congregation and a call to the churches, generally, to lift up parenting," said Thwaites.
He urged churches to open their facilities to parents and help them to learn more about good parenting.
"Jamaica will only truly change when there are strong parents who take the best care of their children and guide them along the right path," said Thwaites.
FORM STABLE RELATIONSHIPS
He urged the children and young adults to ensure that when they become adults they look for a stable partnership "that will be blessed by God and with God's help the relationship can last for a lifetime".
The education minister argued that children did their best when they had both parents in the home.
Pointing to the Children's Day theme for this year, 'Treasure Our Children', Thwaites outlined some of the ways in which parents could treasure these gifts from the Lord.
"We must not kill them - whether in the womb or whether by our behaviour and treatment."
Thwaites called on parents to send their children to church as he argued that there is scientific evidence, right here in Jamaica, that the children who attend Sabbath school and Sunday school become better students and better citizens.
"No matter how many schools and great churches we build, parents are the ones who have been given the responsibility by God to bring children into the world and raise them, but many of them have not been good parents," declared Thwaites.
He argued that the worst thing slavery did for Jamaica was to break down the African family traditions, as quite often now children are in difficulties because parents are not attentive to them.
Pastor Devon Osbourne, secretary of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, in welcoming Thwaites, described him as a humble, committed and caring person.
Osbourne called on parents to do their best to mould the lives of the children, who he described as the future of nation and the future of the church.
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