A call has been made to parents to always monitor their children’s character and observe the type of company they keep, in order not to fall into immoral behaviours and bad company.
The call, which was made by the Director of the FCT Education Resource Centre, Hajiya Neemat D. Abdulrahim, blamed most parents for failing woefully to bring up their children with good character.
The director, who spoke through Alhaji Salka Abubakar at the graduation speech and prize-giving day ceremony of Al-Ansar Standard International Academy in Kuje Area Council of the FCT on Sunday, advised parents or guardians to also control the social media addiction of their wards.
She warned that parents who fail to train their children properly risk being cast into hellfire, noting that Allah has bestowed the responsibility of taking care of children on their parents.
The director also harped on the negative effects of social media on children, which she listed as addiction that will lead to poor academic performance, cyberbullying, immorality, and mental health disturbance.
Although she acknowledged that social media also has its positive aspects, such as promoting education, skills development, talent showcasing and networking, the director advised parents to closely monitor their children so that they do not adopt the bad characters of irresponsible people seen in such media.
She called on parents and guardians to lecture their children or wards about the law of privacy guiding social media so that they don’t fall into the traps of criminals.
She advised parents to groom their children properly in the ways of Allah.
Earlier in his welcome address at the event, the Chairman, Shaikh Abubakar Sani Jos, informed parents and guardians to be concerned towards promoting their children’s and wwards’education.
He said parents who train their children with good morals will be admitted into Paradise.
The chairman commended the school’s management and stakeholders of Al-Ansar Academy for imbibing such good values in reforming the academy’s graduates towards attaining greater heights in life.
In her speech, the school’s head teacher, Mrs Sherifat Sherififeen, advised the graduates to always inculcate the values they learnt from the school, especially in areas of discipline, humility, respect, honesty and the love for one another.
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