I recently saw a relative again whom I had not seen for many years. One of the changes in his life is that he is now married and the young couple has a child who is two years old.
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Quip of the day;
Spare the rod and spoil the child
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The quip many of my readers would prefer;
Spare the stones and spoil the Luo
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The way this only child is brought up alarmed me and still greatly disturbs me. The child is not disciplined and is allowed to do literally anything they wish to do, including emptying a glass full of water on the head of his father who just laughs and cleans up the mess.
"He is still a child, he doesn't know what he is doing," he once announced apologetically. The child cried for another glass of water which was promptly supplied and he proceeded to do exactly the same thing.
This young man, who happens to be my relative, will run into plenty of problems in future and he will also cause his parents lots of trouble. They are actually breeding a monster that will grow up to terrorize and haunt them.
Sadly you cannot advice people on how to bring up children without causing offence, so I hope they will read this post and know that it is them I am talking about and maybe do something about it before it is too late.
My relative is not a unique case. Right across the nation, Kenyans are busy bringing up the future generation of Kenyans in this way. Why then do we get surprised when youngsters barely in their teens waylay us and shoot us dead at the least excuse?
Even more interesting is the fact that most carjacking incidents and robberies take place on Fridays. The reason? So that the perpetrators can have a nice weekend at the Carnivore and other popular nightspots. Or fly to Mombasa for a weekend. That's exactly how our young people think these days.
I am in my early fourties and I can tell you that when we were young discipline and good manners were the most important thing. These days the most important thing is how much money you have in your pocket and it does not matter how you made that money.
Of course our political leaders must take a lot of the blame over what has gone wrong with our society, which will be near impossible to correct. We have a retied president who is one of the richest individuals on the continent, richer than even the late Mobutu, president of mineral-rich Congo. Estimates put his net worth at between 2 and 3 billion US dollars. Nobody seems to care how he made his money. Has corruption become part of the fabric of our society that it is now accepted as normal?
The point is that if the former president made his wealth by virtue of his position, why should other Kenyans not emulate him, when they get a chance? That chance could be carjacking your car using a loaded gun hired for only a few thousand shillings.
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