Communities Urged To Play Great Role In Child Upbringing

This article was last updated on May 25, 2022

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“Our community has a lead and greater role to play in bringing up children outside formal education. Our community has a lead role to play in child protection against negative cultural practices in the society. I speak on context of behavioural change,” he said.

Lodinga reminds South Sudanese couples that it is important for them as both parents to play a role model for how they want their children to behave.

Preferring parents to teach children to learn how thing are done by watching their parents doing things, the Minister warns that applying corporal punishment which involves wreaking pain on a child in an attempt to stop them from misbehaving further is a dangerous means of teaching and is damaging.

He cites a friendly discipline could be applied to coach responsibility and self-control saying discipline instils obedience hence rewards the child for good behaviour and also discourages bad behaviour.

“With proper and regular discipline, your child will learn about consequences and taking responsibility for their own actions. By using fair and positive means, discipline rewards a child for fitting behaviour and discourages unsuitable behaviour,” he said.

He added that many parents think that disciplining a child means physical retribution, such as beating and slapping, or verbal abuse like intimidation.

“This is not discipline, disciplining a child implies teaching them responsible behaviour plus self-control,” he said.

The Child Welfare Acting Director, Eluzai Oting urged South Sudanese communities to uphold principles of parental and support by working together with the ministry to ensure good behaviour is instilled on every child.

“Each one of us has a major role in ensuring that our children is protected, awarded their right and adequately provided for,” he said.

The leaders urged the communities to maintain a strong focus on child security as far as behaviour is concerned.

“Parents are the vehicle for change as children learn from them at home i.e. how they act, what they do, at what time or period, what is avoided and why,” Lodinga said.

He appealed to parents to engage on the key role to meet the needs of the children to avoid deviations in children as they grow to notice what is lacking.