Bond with your kids -Parents, teachers told
Parents and teachers have been encouraged to form closer relationships with children by spending more time with them.
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“In some homes, parents are so busy with work that children find it difficult to go to them with their problems. Parents should be flexible so that their children can easily approach them with their problems,” advised Mr Peter Akyea of the Department of Children under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection.
Mr Akyea who is the Greater Accra Regional Director of the department gave the advise at the Junior Graphic Fun Fair organised for children at the Aviation Social Centre last Saturday.
He encouraged children not to be afraid to approach their parents and teachers with their problems.
“Instead, make friends with your parents and teachers and be obedient to them,” he advised.
He also called on parents to support their children by providing them with their needs.
The Editor of the Junior Graphic, Mrs Mavis Kitcher, said the fun fair was organised to give children the opportunity to get rid of some of the stress they have gone through before serious classes began in schools.
Mrs Kitcher added that the management of Graphic Communications Group Limited, publishers of the Junior Graphic, had periodically sought sponsorship from corporate institutions to distribute free copies of the paper to deprived schools and pupils and mentioned Standard Chartered Bank as one of the institutions to have supported in that direction.
The editor said the paper would organise reading clinics and long vacation camps for the children in 2014 pointing out that the aim was not just to publish a newspaper for children but also to build a relationship with them throughout their childhood years.
The fun fair attracted a number of schoolchildren who were treated to various fun activities by the Right to Play International, Physical Education Teachers from senior high schools and the sponsors of the programme: Perfecto Noodles, Magic Malt, Voltic and Samsung.
At the Samsung stand, where a lot of children scrambled to play with the tablets, Ms Edem Fairre said the tablet had a lot of educative items on it.
She mentioned e-books, inventions, planet discovery, little bridge English for teaching children English Language, and digipals for studying mathematics online.
Ms Gifty Nuer, a Supervisor of MML Limited, producers of Perfecto Noodles, Laser Sardines, Laser Bakeries and Laser Makerel, also encouraged children to patronise their products because it was tasty, full of nutrients and affordable.
But it was not all fun; Afram Publications Company Limited was there with assorted textbooks and story books for children.
Mr Richard Atobrah, Sales and Marketing Manager of the company, advised children to read more books in order to improve on their pronunciation, spelling skills and vocabulary.
