Wife of the Rivers State Governor, Lady Valeria Fubara, on Sunday advised parents to inculcate the right attitude in their children in appreciation to God who has entrusted them in their care.

Mrs Fubara gave the advice during a visit to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital and Rivers State University Teaching Hospital in Port Harcourt.

Mrs Fubara, in a press statement by her Deputy Media Assistant, Elfreda Edori, said that the visit was to felicitate with babies born on Christmas day.

She presented gifts to the new babies born on Christmas day and other children in the wards she visited. She also thanked God for the safe delivery of the children and congratulated their parents and the hospitals.

“My message to all mothers is to appreciate that God has laid a lot of things in the hands of women and God expects us to manage our homes in love and unity,” she said, noting that “training our children with the fear of the Lord is an obligation. Just as it is saddled on the husbands to provide for the family, it is also the woman’s duty to support her husband to build the family in love and in unity,” she said.

Mrs Fubara urged Christians to emulate the life of Christ while they celebrate Christmas.

“Christmas is the time that we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ,” saying that as Christians, “it is important to show what it means to be a Christian, you have to behave Christlike,” she said.

Speaking on behalf of the parents of the newborns, Mr and Mrs Akaningene Edah and Mrs Lilian Ifezue, expressed gratitude to the governor’s wife for coming to share in their joy and blessing their babies with gifts.

(NAN)