Teachers in Kiambu sub-county are being advised to closely monitor children who exhibit aggressive behaviour towards their counterparts.
This is in a bid to curb the rampant cases of children fights that could lead to them sustaining injuries.
Peris Gitari, Ndenderu Primary School head, said that her school takes such cases seriously adding that at times she is even forced to suspend aggressive children who hurt others as they fight quoting instances when fought causing each other injuries.
“Our policy as teachers is to train these children to become responsible people in the future if we do not correct their wrongs doing as youngsters, we will not be able to tame them when they become adults,” she stated.
Kiambu sub-county Education Officer Harrison Muriuki said that these cases are usually rampant among school-going children between the ages of six and 10 because at this age, they tend to have limited self-control.
He noted that some of them acquire the behaviour from the environment they are ex[posed to as they grow up in most cases parents who engage in domestic fights in the presence of their children being the contributing factor.
Muriuki urged parents to act as role models where the welfare of their children was concerned advising them to closely monitor them ensuring that the movies they watch and the games they play are not the violent kind as this tends to expose them to a world of utter violence.
The officer went on to urge teachers to be on the lookout for such children administering punishment that goes in line with their mistake, summoning their parents to the school premises or putting them under counselling by the concerned persons before any eventualities unfold.
This comes at a time when a 17-year-old boy from a Nairobi school succumbed to injuries after 2 days in coma after he was pushed down the stairs during a fight over a book.