By Yvette Obunga
Cases of young children accidentally harming one another while playing has increased. Some few days ago, a two-year-old boy succumbed to death after being hit by a folk Jembe on the skull with another kid while they were playing.
It was very painful moment to the parents of that child, his family members and the entire country at large for loosing such a young soul at a tender age.
Young children in this current generation are indiscipline as a result of improper guidance by their parents. Parents spend little time with their kids. They are not being given proper directions and cautions to apply while interacting with one another.
Majority of children in this generation are growing with untrimmed horns that in turn leads to death of other innocent children. While in their playing activities, they play with harmful weapons like pangas, folk Jembes among other dangerous tools. Major problem is that there is no one to correct them while they are doing wrong.
Some parents have become very careless with their children especially those living in urban set ups. A day can go without knowing where their kids are. Teachers in school are having hard time in handling these children as charity begins at home.
Some of these kids are very wild and they are after harming their fellows. This has been caused by rapid changes in technology whereby some kids try to emulate the kind of content they are watching on Televisions and other forms of media exposed them by their parents and fellow friends.
In order to reduce rampant deaths and injuries among young children, parents should play a bigger role by educating their children, being cautious to them. While at home, parents should monitor movements of their kids and the kind of games they are playing.
Young children should be discouraged from playing with harmful tools that can cause danger to others. Parents and older people at home should ensure that these harmful tools are kept at places where children cannot reach and access them.
Children in this current generation should be taught virtues like, love, peace and unity the way kids in the olden days were taught. That system of children being taught by grandparents and the elderly during weekends and holidays should be revived.
Teachers should also create more awareness to kids in school on the importance of taking care of one another. Teachers should punish kids with indecent behavior in order to curb these rampant deaths among kids.
BY YVETTE OBUNGA, MAASAI MARA UNIVERSITY.
Mary Karau Ngethe