As you can remember, a few days into April a hashtag #ifikiewazazi was trending on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Lest you missed it, this hashtag was meant to inform parents and the public in general on the immoral behaviors their children are engaging themselves into.
But really, who is to blame for these kids misbehaviors?
Parents I must say! This is just the harsh truth. Parents have failed their children, not in every way but in the most important ways.
1.Lack of disciplinary measures.
Remember back in the days when making a mistake opened the gates to hell? Well, our parents' punishments kind of worked in our favour hence shaped us into whom we’ve become in the society today.
I feel like parents have now downed their working tools.(if you know what. mean). 'mishipi…..fimbo….slippers…..nyaunyo……ngumi….(if you don’t know what I mean)'.
Back in the days, it was an abomination to talk back to your parent or an elderly person for that matter while being corrected but the norm seems to have changed nowadays.
As the saying goes, spare the rod and spoil the child.
2.Shifting of responsibilities.
Our modern-age parents are too busy working and letting their kids get raised by nannies, churches, mosques, and society in general.
We as a being tend to pick up traits from the surrounding around us and this includes characters.
At a young age this kids are left alongside nanny’s with questionable behaviours (not all of course) and we still expect them to grow up with good moral values. Really?
3.Ignorance.
How well do this parents know their children? How much time do they spend with them?
As parents are shifting their core responsibilities, they also tend to ignore how much their children are changing.
They don’t bother to know whom their child is spending time with. Not even whom they are going out with. Sleepovers are now the in thing.
But you as a parent do you consider whose place your child will be spending the night with or do you just assume they are grown up enough to take care of themselves?
And now at the rate at which very young couples are becoming parents and still not leaving behind their old habits such as visiting clubs on every weekend, then this generation is headed for a rough ride.