Young parents asked to introduce grandparents into their children’s lives

By Enock Okong’o

Young parents have been asked to expose their children to grandparents to enable them learn important virtues from the older generation.

While speaking at Kabosi village in Nyaribari Chache Constituency, Mr. John Ogega, a retired teacher decried the level of decay in morals in especially the youths in the society. He attributed the vice to the influence of mass media and change in way of life.

The retired educator asked parents to allow their children to mix with their elderly relatives to impart to them important knowledge through the art of storytelling and the traditional songs, noting that they were also relevant in CBC.

“This is a good curriculum because it encourages local knowledge that provides a good base for later advanced learning to settle on,” he said.

Mr. Ogega asked the Ministry of Education to support village elders who are experts in indigenous knowledge to enable them publish their work for storage and for the posterity.

While emphasizing that indigenous languages help pupils to read in their first language before advancing to other languages, he asked local writers to author books based on evironment, local heritage and coexistence among communities.

“The pupils start reading by using their vernacular, this puts them in the right track of learning from the known to unknown,” he advised.

He asked the Ministry of Education to hold the CBC Workshops at grass root level to enable more stakeholders to participate.