SOME PARENTS PREFER to jam all night at fetes rather than give their children a jam sandwich to take to school on mornings for breakfast.
This was the lament of the Salvation Army spokesman, Major Denzil Walcott, who noted that while the current economic climate had played a part, “sometimes it is the parents’ fault as . . . in some cases children are not a priority”.
“Some [parents] would quicker go to the hairdresser than give their children a meal . . . . We see it! A lot of people sometimes come back on Monday with fancy hair-dos and after some questioning, they talk about the jam sessions they went to over the weekend. For some reason they don’t condition [themselves] to put their children first,” he said.
He was speaking yesterday at the Army’s headquarters in Reed Street, The City, ahead of the Scotiabank-sponsored launch of the Christmas Kettle Appeal tomorrow in Jubilee Gardens. (SDB Media)
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