PARENTS URGED TO DEVELOP TALENTS OF CHILDREN.....Page 17

Story: Rose Darko, Tema

THE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chamber of Mines, Ms Joyce Aryee, has called on parents to help develop the talents of their children in their formative years for social and emotional development.
Ms Aryee said this could be achieved in collaboration with school authorities who were trained in the early child development aspects of children’s growth.
She was speaking in Tema at a one-day children's conference organised by Monton Heights 2007, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), on the theme: “Keys for the Growing Child.”
It was attended by students drawn from both junior and senior high schools in Tema and Ashaiman.
Ms Aryee, who spoke on the topic ‘Digging the Gold in the Growing Child', stated that most parents were willing to invest a lot of money in their children's education, even from the day-care stage, in the hope of identifying the “gold” in them.
The CEO noted that with proper environment and education, the ‘gold in children could be dug’.
She said parents needed to educate themselves or have the resources and time to help their children learn, and also set academic goals for them.
She, therefore, urged the students to take their studies seriously to make the investments made in them productive.
The CEO commended the NGO for instituting the programme, saying that it would enhance the learning abilities of the children.
She also appealed to the children to count themselves lucky by being in school and having the opportunity to attend the children's conference, which was to prepare them for their future endeavours.
A Principal Investigator at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mrs Joyce Boahene, who spoke on “The Child’s Rights and Responsibility’, placed much emphasis on moral decency, discipline, peer pressure and courtesy for boys and girls.
She said moral decency must reflect in their attitudes towards others and called on the children to learn to distinguish right from wrong through their behaviour.
Mrs Boahene observed that an undisciplined child had no self-control and could thus easily fall prey to temptation which would retard his or her life in future.