Managing Director of Hollard Insurance and a father of three, Daniel Boi Addo, has advised men not to look at fatherhood as a popularity contest.
In an interview with Rev. Erskine of the Y-Leaderboard Series which airs on YFM’s Myd-Morning Radio Show, he observed that some fathers tend to neglect their responsibility of putting the children right when they err because they do not want their children to see them as the strict dad who was always beating them and never played with them.
According to him, these fathers are bent on being the popular person in the lives of their children but in a positive way and when this happens, they rather raise undisciplined children who grow up telling their problems to the society.
The MD noted that in as much as father want to be friends with their children, they need to balance it with their role of being their corrector.
“In our fathers’ time, they over-played that card of being the corrector and we are trying to balance being a friend to our kids and being a father but don’t necessarily attempt to be the child’s greatest friend. Don’t try to shed your responsibility as a father in the home just so that you don’t incur the displeasure of your children”, he said.
“They are children and they have to be brought up in a certain way so as an adult, it’s your responsibility to do that. You’re shaping their lives so do it whatever way is needed. You’re not fighting with anyone to be popular with your kids”, Mr. Boi Addo further advised.
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye
