Parents responsibility

IGNORANCE as responsible parents to raise their child with the necessary care is becoming a paramount concern in almost all of the urban centres.
Children are not given the attention needed to help them learn the values of life that enable them to become productive citizens.
Why is it that the child’s welfare does not matter that much to the parents when it’s very important?
When a child doesn’t go to school or is absent halfway during the learning hours, involving in gambling, chewing, smoking, and other illegal activities, the parents are so inactive to do anything about it.
I wonder if some parents have any regard for their child’s welfare and their future.
It is sickening to see children with no characters at all, their manner of speech very demeaning with no respect for the elderly and getting involved in affairs of the matured.
Places in cities like Port Moresby, children are exposed tremendously to the negative influences of Western cultures with little or no time to with parents at home to learn and do something constructive that will help shape them become better citizens.
Also indifference by responsible parents has led to a huge number of children now roaming the streets, begging for money, stealing from the mothers, vending and loitering the city, when they should be in the classroom learning or at home helping their parents.
This calls for the government to impose though penalties on parents who neglect their moral duties, in sending their children to school and not controlling their children.
If we accumulate a large number of uneducated through simple failures as such, imagine the catastrophe the nation is verged on when it has already undergone the adversity posed by the uneducated and undisciplined raging at an unprecedented rate and far out of control.
Parental attention is paramount and earliest intervention is compulsory to ensure we reduce the number of irresponsible citizens.
Two things are apparent; discipline and education!
While the parents may assume the primary responsibility of the matter of discipline and education, our government must also assist in legislating laws to enable citizenship education crucial to achieve Vision 2050 and many more.
Whilst social influences are on the rise and are affecting this vulnerable population, parents must apply the necessary disciplinary measures to help curb the probability of problems growing out of control.
As parents do your job and get your child right before he or she turn into a monster and devour you.

Tony Guan
KONDAN BAUNDO-Simbaix!