As we prepare our children for the new school year, let’s all take the time to pause and reflect on 2015 and the mistakes we made concerning our children and try to make improvements in 2016.

If we do not take good care of them now, then the future will be really bleak for Fiji where we will revert to the “have and have nots” style of living of yester years.

Sure the Government may have made a few blunders here and there about just pushing students through the education system, but has made the necessary adjustments and we hope to see an improvement in the next three to five years.

Family values is crucial in this time of rebuilding our nation, let’s look back at how we were brought up and try to incorporate the necessary ones in our children and make adjustments here and there, otherwise the number of unemployment, teenage pregnancies and drug related offences committed by juveniles will continue like global warming where it becomes inevitable.

We as a country must look out for one another and each other’s children, for a friend once told me it takes a community to raise a child.

The time of turning a blind eye to our young ones throwing rubbish carelessly, swearing in public places and just being up to mischief because their parents aren’t around must come to an end gradually, let’s make Fiji a better place to live and grow old in and not end up like our “big brothers” who send off their elderly to aged care homes and forget about them, let’s make Fiji the way the world should be.

God bless Fiji and its children.