The Vice Chancellor for Uganda Christian University in Mukono, Rev Canon Dr. John Senyonyi has advised parents to establish a good relationship with their children.
Dr. Senyonyi said that this is because parenting can only be more enjoyable when a positive parent-child relationship is established.
He told Ultimate Media that in parenting a toddler or a teenager, good communication is the key to building self-esteem as well as mutual respect.
Dr. Senyonyi said that the relationship one has with their child determines the quality of communication with them.
The Don, who is said to be one of the successful parents in Uganda, says that children need good parental relationship with both their father and mother. “Although mothers make good boys, fathers make men,” he said to urge fathers to take necessary steps to ensure a good relationship with their children.
Senyonyi says that a relationship with a Father is the greatest influence in the moral formation of a child and that an absentee father affects the child in diverse ways. He said that involvement of fathers is important in the up bringing of a child.
