Parental care is very essential in human existence but reverse is the case in our contemporary world since most of the parents now don’t care about the activities of their children. In this regard, most children engage in illicit acts while their parents don’t usually take necessary measures to curb such phenomenon.
Family is the first agent of socialisation where parents teach and impart good morality and character to their children. But most times the family as the first agent fails to train the children to be the best version of themselves.
We have poor parental of up-bringing in our society due to the negligence of parents considering how morality, decency, uprightness, ethics, virtuousness, rectitude and other proper conducts are lacking in our society.
If family as the first agent of socialisation performs its role, we can uplift our society to a greater extent that we can be proud of the society. Family plays a vital role in shaping the phenomenon of parental responsibility but that was before because nowadays both the family and the elderly people of the society don’t care anymore about the activities of their wards. Hence exposing them to bad character and other social vices in the society.
Matt Walsh once remind us that, “parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.” Yes, parenting is the easiest thing to do on this earth but many parents failed in uplifting a very sound society. It’s the responsibility of the parents to instil good character to their children.
I wonder why our parents and society in general failed to understand that those doing illegal, criminal, felonious and unlawful actions also come from home and families. So with this view if the family can be able to train their children in a very good conduct we may develop a very good society.
Our society will going to be great again by the grace of the omnipresence, omnipotent God but we can only be great if we have patriotic and good people with love and affection for the society and also people with zeal and passion in seeing that our society come back to its normalcy.
Sa’ida Muhammad,
Department of Mass Communication,
Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic,
Bauchi, Bauchi state
Saeedatmuhammad@gmail.com