Acting Prime Minister Winston Dookeran on Saturday urged parents to show a “new energy” in order to deal with the problems in today's society. He was speaking the Holy Trinity Spiritual Baptist Church in Chinapoo Village, Morvant at a special service to commemorate Trinidad and Tobago's 48th anniversary of Independence.
Dookeran noted that effective parenting remains the bedrock in building a solid nation and durable society, “one that would withstand all the chaos sometimes around us”.
He repeated a message delivered at the Edinburgh Hindu temple last week.
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“We must be prepared to walk in the rain without getting wet and that is the job ahead of us. Notwithstanding the difficulties around us, it is time for a new beginning and we must be able to walk with our heads held high.
“That is why I am here, to bring the message of good parenting in 2010. The new beginning to which I refer can only be built if we return to good parenting and family life.”
Dookeran lamented that his generation often took good parenting for granted.
“We have lost focus in a broad sense and now we must return to building the values for good family life and to ensure that we are familiar with the duties and the responsibilities of parenting,” he said.
“It would take some time for us to become comfortable with the dimensions that will, in fact, be required as we celebrate independence, by going back to family life and parenting.”
Dookeran was careful to admit that good parenting exists in many communities where family connections are strong.
“We have to go back to our own history, our own heritage, our own culture, our own beginnings where we cared for each other in the family, where we cared for our uncles, our aunts, our grandmothers, our grandfathers, when we felt that that was part of our responsibility,” Dookeran said.
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