Parents told to know their children’s temperaments

P ARENTS have been charged to observe their children closely in order to be able to discover their temperamental traits early enough.

The proprietress of the Golden Future Group of Schools, Eleyele, Ibadan, Mrs Ada Umezurike, gave the advice while giving a career talk at the 10th anniversary/end of-the-year programme of the school, which was held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Eleyele, Ibadan.

She listed the four different personality types as sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, through which parents can understand their children, as well as know the kind of course that would suit them in life.

Mrs Umezurike said knowing the temperament of a child would help in understanding a child, and especially in helping to guide the academic career of such child.

“Parents are essentially meant to guide their children along the path of career and not to force or choose for them what course to study; neither should they discourage them from whatsoever course they love to study,” she said.

She advised parents to create a conducive and enabling learning environment for their children; listen and give answers to their different often strange questions and be their greatest and loudest cheer leaders and supporters.

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“There is no child that cannot be a success in life. All of them can do well; all we need to do is to groom them. Let them have the fear of God; let them know and believe that they can succeed. It is not the course you read, but how much you do with what you read,” she stated.

While recounting the achievements of the school in the last 10 years, the proprietress said, “the school as a dream was founded on 15 September, 2008 with 12 children and a sum of N60,000, in one room with just one teacher; but today we have close to 350 children.

“Our aim is to give quality education to children without their parents having to pay in millions. Most of the children here are on scholarship, because we discovered that some of them are brilliant but they don’t have money to pay; so we accept whatever their parents can afford.”

She thanked long-standing parents who have been with them from inception, encouraging them not to relent in their efforts in making their children great.