Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo is en­cour­ag­ing pupils, start­ing sec­ondary school in Sep­tem­ber, to com­mu­ni­cate with their par­ents or oth­er trust­ed adults about their feel­ings and to choose their friends wise­ly.

“You have to find a way to deal with what we adults call your in­ner con­flict. What worked for me was talk­ing to my par­ents about what I was feel­ing,” she stat­ed.

The Pres­i­dent gave this ad­vice to the 2025 grad­u­at­ing class of Man­zanil­la Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School dur­ing her fea­ture ad­dress on Wednes­day. She re­mind­ed the pupils that they don’t have to car­ry their con­flict­ing emo­tions alone. The Pres­i­dent said while they may not al­ways un­der­stand the ad­vice their par­ents or guardians give them, it usu­al­ly comes from a good place.