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Don’t discipline children with insults – Parents advised

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah

Parents have been advised against disciplining their children with insults as it has the potential of making them timid affecting both their natural and spiritual growth.

Head pastor for Adenta District in the newly created Hatso Atomic Area of the Church of Pentecost in the Greater Accra region, Emmanuel Oppong Donkor who gave the caution, urged parents to train their children without insulting them or using all kinds of derogatory remarks on them, because insults affect children psychologically by making them timid and nervous.

He said such behaviors make the children feel shy and not brave to speak or showcase the potentials they [children] are endowed with, and under no circumstance should parents insult their children.

“You can discipline your children without insults… It makes them timid, it makes them nervous” he cautioned.

Pastor Oppong Donkor said this when he visited Adenta Ewe Assembly, last Sunday to  climax this year’s Children’s week celebration of the Church of Pentecost.

In the church’s quest to discover and develop various potentials of the children, she sets side one whole week every year to enable children showcase their talents and skills in the Lord. And this year’s children’s week celebration which started on Monday, 2 September, 2019 on the theme; “I will build my church: children are a part” (Matt. 16:18, Titus 2:13-14) came to an end

Explaining the theme earlier, Children’s Ministry Director of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Fred Tiakor said it is geared towards sensitising the adult church to accept children as bona fide members of the church so that they will be included in all church activities and programmes. “We should also consider the children as agents of transformation. God can use them to change the face of society. We want to use this period to demonstrate to the adult church what the Lord can do through children,” he said.

At Adenta Ewe Assembly on Sunday, children were clad in beautiful and stylish African costumes, and activities such as, drama, African dance, bible verse recital, sermon, and many others were solely performed by the children with love, boldness, passion, and enthusiasm which made the congregants and Pastor Oppong to the church has a future.

In an exclusive interview with Deacon Samuel Amamu, an executive member of the Adenta District’s Children’s Ministry, he congratulates the children for their spectacular performances, but urged parents to allow and help the children to discover and develop their potentials more at home.

Source: MyNewsGh.com

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