A Life Coach, Nana Kofi Mbeah has associated the lack of indiscipline amongst the youth with the absence of punishment in homes and schools. He referred to the style of parenting which is practiced in our societies.
He observed that children nowadays are claiming more rights than responsibilities, adding that children’s rights have become very prominent such that parents and guardians cannot exercise their parental rights to discipline their wards.
He adds that parents and guardians, face court actions in an attempt to punish their wards, whilst blaming it on the infiltration of the Western culture into the Ghanaian culture.
He stated that children today see any form of punishment as physical, or emotional abuse on them. For his, teachers do not have to throw in the towel on correcting or disciplining children.
“The style of parenting eventually is creating problems for us, as a society because the wholesale adoption of Western lifestyle and modernity way of parenting have contributed to creating children who are claiming more rights than responsibilities .
Now child rights have become so prominent that even the right of parents to discipline their children have been taken away from them,” He said.
Mr Mbeah maintains that teachers should not be deprived of using different forms of punishment on children.
He advised parents to take pragmatic efforts to correct their wards at home and not rely on educational practitioners.
“I even tell parents not to allow the education system to correct your child. Charity begins at home, and so if you don’t train your child at home to imbibe those ethical values for them to be responsible you’ve lost the child. There is no way the school can discipline the child even though they have a counseling unit to guide them,” Mr Mbeah added.
Mr Mbeah maintains that teachers should not be deprived of using different forms of punishment on children.
He advised parents to take pragmatic efforts to correct their wards at home and not rely on educational practitioners.
