Masaku sevens ….I hear it was a show to behold….

I have really been thinking a lot about what I hear happened during Masaku 7’s. And mind you though being in Machakos on that day I got home early before all the free live movies started. So I just heard just like some of you. No wonder people say free things are not good.

In one way or the other let us be glad it happened now in broad day light the last time Masaku sevens was in Machakos the young people were discreet they did their mating in the darkness where their parents could not see them and the consequences of what happened at night were visible the following morning with the littering of their implements of trade. But this time around I guess all bets were off and behold they threw caution in the air and hence the reason for the daytime movies.

                                                                                                

Parents, let us all agree we have all abdicated our duties of communal parenting that is why the children decided to show us, that they know what happens behind the closed doors of your bedroom, let us all agree that they all behaved just like teenagers would behave when they get some little bit of freedom and with bodies that are boiling or yearning for adventure and a dose of peer pressure. I do not understand why we are shocked.

Since we forgot corporate parenting the way our African culture advocated, that is the reason we got our medication and instead of giving us the correct dosage the teenagers overdosed us. With a clear picture of what our kids are doing when they leave the house to go and party with their friends.

What has been troubling me about the whole incidence is how you parents could endure to sit in their nice cars, stuck in a traffic jam which is caused by teenagers who are fornicating in broad light is unfathomable. Why couldn’t all the parents come out of the comfort of their cars, go berserk, beat up those fornicators rather than sit in your car boiling and ashamed of what you were seeing. Ask yourself if that was your child what could you have done? Anyway since we have all failed we should stop blaming Governor Mutua. If you felt so offended what action did you take on that day other than watching a free live uncomfortable cinema from your kids. Which you are now saying it was disgusting.

                               

I miss the days when we used to be disciplined by our parents and if another parent saw you misbehaving, if you did not get a pinch from them a thorough beating awaited you at home because they were sure to tell on you to your mother. And that is what should have happened on that fateful Saturday.

Please let us all remember that if you do not correct or guide that one child misbehaving just because he/she does not belong to you, even when yours will be misbehaving no one will correct them. It is just like the story we used to be told in Sunday school whose moral story used to be; when you do something good to someone you are essentially doing to yourself.

Am glad Masaku 7’s happened at least it cleared or opened some eyes that were blurred now am sure we are all seeing clearly. Parents do not just sit there and assume yours are the angels and other people’s kids are the devil. Yours might give you a heart attack if you only knew what they do in their secret hideaway.

Proverbs 23:13 “Don’t hesitate to discipline a child. A good spanking won’t kill him. ¹⁴ As a matter of fact, it may save his life.”