Kumasi, May 14, GNA - The Reverend Father Francis Kusi-Ababio, Catholic Chaplain of the Saint Louis Training College in Kumasi, has urged Ghanaian mothers to be more responsible in the upbringing of children to help reduce indiscipline among the youth. He observed that these days mothers who were supposed to show care, love, protection and respect for their children at times turned to invoke curses on their children.

The Rev Fr Kusi-Ababio said this in a homily at the Holy Mass organized by the Saint Louis Training College Chaplain to mark Mother's Day in Kumasi on Sunday.

He said the future of every child depended upon the kind of training the child received in the home. Rev Fr Kusi-Ababio advised parents to have time for their children's welfare because the more they had time for them, the more the children also developed the spirit of love and trust for themselves and others.

He entreated children to show respect and obedience to their parents as well as the elderly in society. "A child who lives with fear, learns to be apprehensive but a child who lives with encouragement, learns to be confident" and urged parents to train their children in the spirit of God. He appealed to mothers who live with stepchildren to treat them as their own and not be cruel to them.