Group Warns against Hurrying Children through School

Mary Nnah

Legal Adviser for A Mother’s Love Initiative, Mr. Uchechukwu Michael Ginika, is of the opinion that students are more likely to have academic success if they are not hurried through their early childhood by parents who overestimate their competence and overexpose them to academic pressures.

According to him, the concept permeates the entire fabric of society, manifesting in heightened domestic roles, undue academic expectations and excessive demands, child labour, child marriage, etc.

For this reason, the initiative is championing a cause in Africa to salvage the future of African children.

To achieve this, the NGO has been using various strategies, including the documentary, ‘The Hurried Child: An African Perspective’, that creates awareness on the ills of hurrying children through school. The documentary will be launched at Protea Hotel by Marriott, Kuramo Waters Close on November 19, 2021, by 11:00 a.m., to commemorate of the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse.

The event will consolidate the call for action by other stakeholders and engage the town and gown on the Hurried Child syndrome. Ginika emphasised that the documentary is a media advocacy documentary aimed at reorienting the subtle but hurtful concept of hurrying the child through life.