Stakeholders in the education sector have blamed poor parenting for the moral decadence threatening to destroy youths in the country.
The registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria , Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, a guest at the programme, stated that parents failed to provide their children with the support and guidance needed for their proper growth and development and advised them to do better in raising morally-sound children.
“I am a believer of the fact that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child. Children should be disciplined. Corporal punishment is allowed in schools. The law recognises it,” said Ajiboye. “However, there are people to administer that; either the principal or the vice principal. If we generally abandon the rod, what is happening now will be a child’s play to what will happen in the future.”
While suggesting measures like denial and time out to help straighten a child, Omoegun spoke of the need for parents to begin early to teach the children sex education to enable them to know and report any sexual abuse.