Secondary schools have been urged to offer mentorship programs on career choices to help students shape their future and make right career decisions.
Addressing teenage girls at Christian Foundation Fellowship Church in Athi River on Friday, the church's founder Pastor Lydia Wairimu said most children lose focus in life due to lack of proper mentorship.
Wairimu said most children lose lifelong ambitions once they get to secondary schools, ending up settling for jobs they had never dreamt before once they come of age as adults.
"It has become a culture for children to be very ambitious with lucrative dreams at their tender ages more so while in primary schools only to be demoralised when they get to secondary schools," said Wairimu.
She said her eldest daughter was such an example stating that she had first ambition of being a dentist when she was in lower primary only to change it to journalist in upper primary, accountant in early secondary and now a Disc Jockey (DJ) after she completed her secondary school education, what she said she was against.
According to Wairimu, it was more prudent for secondary schools to give priorities to mentoring students on career choices once they get to form two in a bid of making them select subjects which would lead them to such dreams.
She noted that children should be encouraged to stick to their life long ambitions and be assisted to achieve their professional dreams after their education through consistent mentorship and counselling.
Wairimu added that parents should also play their roles of providing their children with their needs as a way of encouraging them to work hard in their education, she said children talents and hobbies should also not be overlooked as if well nurtured can end up being their careers.