PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESTRUCTURING A NATION

Abstract

Most parents shy away from their responsibility of building the character of their children. Moral character usually indicates strategies for the maturation of individual child andherefore, parents possess the rights and responsibilities to educate their children in the culture of respect, integrity and self-control. Parents have many opportunities and tools for achieving the task to develop and encourage their children’s quality of good character. If parents can use the tools in their hands, they will have the joy and satisfaction of seeing their children grow into a person of integrity, compassion and personality. The paper deduced that, every child is but a reflection of his/her immediate environment. Lack of proper parental character building has brought about some contemptible activities today among the children It argued that children who lack the right kind of parental involvement in character development sometimes end up being unscrupulous. However, the paper suggested that proper child character development is the basis for restructuring the future of a nation like Nigeria.