Chaplain: Revisit how we raise children

He said parents need to train their children to be tough so that they can handle what someone says to them.

“Too many times, children find themselves in trouble because they resort to violence to deal with bad things said to them,” Gomez said.

“Therefore, it is important to avoid raising ‘eggs’ and raise children to be tough and not naive.” He also commented on the fact that too many members of the Defence Force, while they love their God, are drifting away from the Godly precepts in the National Pledge.

He explained, “Since we were children, we were taught to be selfless. But the opposite has taken hold of the country...That is not to say that we don’t have selfless people around, but it’s not honoured.” Speaking more generally, he said that the word “sacrifice” was another word that has lost value in present day Trinidad and Tobago, since most want everything now.