The Parish Priest of the Saint Joseph Catholic Church at Apam, Very Rev. James Akpenyi, has appealed to parents to visits the schools of their wards periodically, to enable them known their performances and behaviour.

Visiting the schools, he said, would enable parents to interact with the authorities, and also know problems confronting their wards, setbacks and help find solutions to them.

Very Rev. Akpenyi was delivering a lecture on “Parenthood as a Gift from God,” organized by the Parish.

He advised parents not love some of their children more than others in their up-bringing.

The Parish Priest said parents should identify the needs of their wards and provide them, adding that it was very bad to neglect children.

Very Rev. Akpenyi asked parents to train and educate their wards properly, to enable them become useful adults in future, adding that parents should not hesitate to discipline recalcitrant children.

He said the children must be disciplined with love, saying that whenever children were playing important roles at social functions, parents must be present to encourage and spur them on.

Very Rev Akpenyi appealed to parents to set examples worthy of emulation by their children at home.

He stressed the need for members of the church to marry within, to enable the leaders amicably settle misunderstandings among married couples.