Draw closer to your children

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I WRITE about a very serious gulf between parents/guardians which I discovered while supervising G.S.A.T. Exams recently. I was surprised to the point of shock when observing students doing the "Communication Task" paper, that most of the students did not know the proper names of their parents/guardians. Most children have only been calling their parents mommy, daddy, granny, aunty, uncle etc. for the longest time.

I discovered that most Jamaicans have never taken time to sit with their children even at dinner time, to tell their children (parents/-guardians) that my full name is "Mary Jane Wisdom". Now it comes to the time when the poor neglected child/children must put this simple information on paper as part of their communication task, they sit looking all over the room for a miracle to happen.

I respectfully beg to use this medium to appeal to our Jamaican parents and guardians to draw closer to our children and do some needy homework with them.

I am, etc.,

REV. A.S. THORPE, F.I.B. (LON.) J.P.

P.O. Box 209,

Brown's Town

St. Ann

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