Showbiz maverick and activist, Charly Boy, has urged single parents to embrace responsibility and hard work in order to properly raise and cater for their children.
He gave the advice in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, many single parents do not bother about the proper upbringing of their children.
“No matter your circumstances or reasons, once you are a single parent, you should be prepared for the good and bad and handle it accordingly.
“You cannot afford to be lazy or to discriminate on the kind of job you can or cannot do because of an illusion class.
“As long as the job is not prostitution, drug peddling and trafficking in any of the vices, you must give your best at whatever work you find yourself doing to earn a living.
“Rather than pity yourself or stay on the spot whining and wailing or going to night vigil every day, wear a good dose of confidence and try your best, ” Charly Boy said.
He said while single parenting was bedevilled with enormous challenges, these challenges were not insurmountable.
“A mistake I have seen with single parents is that they turn their children to the husband they do not have, they do not discipline them when they go wrong.
“Everything the child does is okay whether good or not, they don’t put their foot down on what they know is right for the child to do.
“This is why some children raised by single parents only turn out poorly and terribly because those parents didn’t give their best or their best wasn’t good enough.
“We have stories of single parents whose children turned out very beautifully, thereby becoming reference points for good,’’ he said.(NAN)