Parents urged to inculcate reading habits in children, Thursday November 25, 2010, pg 46
Parents have been advised to inculcate reading habits in their children to improve the standard of oral and written English.
Parents are also to endeavour to wean children from adult-oriented media programmes.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Values for Life, a non-governmental organisation with a focus on child development, Ms Dzifa Gomashie, said a lot needed to be done to improve the falling standards of education in the country.
The ace actress observed that “although I am an actress, the kind of things we are broadcasting on television and on the air waves are not child-friendly.
These are all adult materials that children are watching not because they have a choice but because that is what is available”.
“We are parents first and foremost and friends of our children second. If we do not reverse the current trend, we will turn around one day and ask ourselves how our children turned against our expectations,” she stated.
Ms Gomashie made the remark at a socialisation programme organised for children in the Adenta-Madina-Abokobi Community at the organisation’s community centre at Adenta.
The community centre, which was opened in June, provides training for children in acting, flute playing, bead-making and singing.
The centre also has a library stocked with more than 1000 books and offers reading classes for its patrons.
Values for Life also has a membership of more than 500 pupils in schools in the Adenta-Madina-Abokobi communities.
Ms Gomashie observed that today’s children were being forced to become adults and therefore would not enjoy childhood as much as they could.
She said as part of measures to whip up reading enthusiasm among the children, the centre encouraged them to submit a summary of all novels they read.
“Through that, we are able to monitor their performance and help those having difficulties and encourage those doing well,” she stated.
Ms Gomashie appealed to the public and corporate institutions to donate children’s books to the centre in order to support the organisation’s quest to promote reading habits among children.
“An individual has a child but the community has the collective responsibility to shape the future of that child and we are particularly thrilled that the community is applauding what we are doing”.
Mrs Pauline Lamberts, the Manager of the Legon Campus Branch of the Barclays Bank, who is also a volunteer at the centre, for her part, said the bank remained committed to bridging the gap between the home and school for children. She also pledged the bank’s support for the centre.
Parents are also to endeavour to wean children from adult-oriented media programmes.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Values for Life, a non-governmental organisation with a focus on child development, Ms Dzifa Gomashie, said a lot needed to be done to improve the falling standards of education in the country.
The ace actress observed that “although I am an actress, the kind of things we are broadcasting on television and on the air waves are not child-friendly.
These are all adult materials that children are watching not because they have a choice but because that is what is available”.
“We are parents first and foremost and friends of our children second. If we do not reverse the current trend, we will turn around one day and ask ourselves how our children turned against our expectations,” she stated.
Ms Gomashie made the remark at a socialisation programme organised for children in the Adenta-Madina-Abokobi Community at the organisation’s community centre at Adenta.
The community centre, which was opened in June, provides training for children in acting, flute playing, bead-making and singing.
The centre also has a library stocked with more than 1000 books and offers reading classes for its patrons.
Values for Life also has a membership of more than 500 pupils in schools in the Adenta-Madina-Abokobi communities.
Ms Gomashie observed that today’s children were being forced to become adults and therefore would not enjoy childhood as much as they could.
She said as part of measures to whip up reading enthusiasm among the children, the centre encouraged them to submit a summary of all novels they read.
“Through that, we are able to monitor their performance and help those having difficulties and encourage those doing well,” she stated.
Ms Gomashie appealed to the public and corporate institutions to donate children’s books to the centre in order to support the organisation’s quest to promote reading habits among children.
“An individual has a child but the community has the collective responsibility to shape the future of that child and we are particularly thrilled that the community is applauding what we are doing”.
Mrs Pauline Lamberts, the Manager of the Legon Campus Branch of the Barclays Bank, who is also a volunteer at the centre, for her part, said the bank remained committed to bridging the gap between the home and school for children. She also pledged the bank’s support for the centre.
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