Parents should ensure their children are brought up in a peaceful environment as a way of helping them learn social responsibility and mechanisms of integrating with the rest of the society, an SDA pastor has said.
Speaking at Nyancha SDA church on Thursday, Pastor Henry Nyamwanda asked parents to teach their children good morals at a tender age, in a bid to prepare them as responsible people when they grow up.
He said many social vices pertaining children that are reported constantly from the region are as a result of poor parenting.
“What decides the character of the child is the social environment where he or she is brought up. This therefore means those who spend most times with children must be people of integrity and high morals standards,” added Nyamwanda.
“Parents ought to be role models because they spend most times with the children. If that is done, we will see a responsible generation that will not engage itself in several social vices such as drinking alcohol or engaging in premarital sex,” he added.
Further, pastor Nyamwanda asked parents to avoid discriminating certain denominations, saying all denominations were equal before the eyes of God.
“The issue of denomination should not separate us at all. Everyone is at liberty to support any denomination of his or her choice,” said the South Nyanza Conference based pastor.