Our children are our responsibility
Aug 02, 2007
CHILDREN are a gift and we are blessed to have them. Their presence implies that our nation’s future is assured. However, its brightness has a lot do with our input today. How best are we training and equipping our children? Our children are our responsibility.
Medrine Nabalema
CHILDREN are a gift and we are blessed to have them. Their presence implies that our nation’s future is assured. However, its brightness has a lot do with our input today. How best are we training and equipping our children? Our children are our responsibility.
Our homes play the most important role in child development. Parents are key in this development process, working with all stakeholders in child development like teachers, social workers and service providers who interact with the children on a day-to-day basis. It is expected of every parent to have the best plans for his or her child.
The education of our children is one of the many aspects in the life of a child, which deserves all the attention we can give it. The parent has the privilege to select a school for his or her child. Many parents are doing this and the children are benefiting from it.
However, it is unfortunate that some children have to go hungry while at school. The feeding of our children is our responsibility and we need to embrace it lovingly. We need to come up with ways of feeding our children when they are at school.
It is very unhealthy for a growing child to go hungry the whole day while at school. “A healthy mind in a healthy body†is true and can only be achieved if our children are well fed. Our children deserve better than going hungry before our own eyes. This is a call to the leaders in our communities, please let us advocate good feeding for our dear children.
As an adult, you are who you are because of that advocate who stood up for you during your childhood. Regardless of where this child lives, you are the voice for that child in that community.
Parents, teachers, social workers, church leaders and community leaders, let us invest in our children. The upbringing of the Ugandan child is our responsibility as Ugandans; however, the parent takes the lead. Let us empower the parents in the child development process. Let the parents know the facts and their responsibility in the education of the children. It is always a joy to celebrate the educational achievements of a child and the opposite when failure is encountered.
Let us not register failures due to lack of feeding for our children. Together we can have healthy minds in healthy bodies for a healthy future.
The writer is a children’s social worker in Kampala
CHILDREN are a gift and we are blessed to have them. Their presence implies that our nation’s future is assured. However, its brightness has a lot do with our input today. How best are we training and equipping our children? Our children are our responsibility.
Our homes play the most important role in child development. Parents are key in this development process, working with all stakeholders in child development like teachers, social workers and service providers who interact with the children on a day-to-day basis. It is expected of every parent to have the best plans for his or her child.
The education of our children is one of the many aspects in the life of a child, which deserves all the attention we can give it. The parent has the privilege to select a school for his or her child. Many parents are doing this and the children are benefiting from it.
However, it is unfortunate that some children have to go hungry while at school. The feeding of our children is our responsibility and we need to embrace it lovingly. We need to come up with ways of feeding our children when they are at school.
It is very unhealthy for a growing child to go hungry the whole day while at school. “A healthy mind in a healthy body†is true and can only be achieved if our children are well fed. Our children deserve better than going hungry before our own eyes. This is a call to the leaders in our communities, please let us advocate good feeding for our dear children.
As an adult, you are who you are because of that advocate who stood up for you during your childhood. Regardless of where this child lives, you are the voice for that child in that community.
Parents, teachers, social workers, church leaders and community leaders, let us invest in our children. The upbringing of the Ugandan child is our responsibility as Ugandans; however, the parent takes the lead. Let us empower the parents in the child development process. Let the parents know the facts and their responsibility in the education of the children. It is always a joy to celebrate the educational achievements of a child and the opposite when failure is encountered.
Let us not register failures due to lack of feeding for our children. Together we can have healthy minds in healthy bodies for a healthy future.
The writer is a children’s social worker in Kampala