While we celebrate Child's Month I just want to reflect on the contribution of the community in growing children when I was a child.Children were taught values and motivated at home school and church.However, it was the people in the community who ensured that we children conducted ourselves in a proper way.People in the community would encourage and motivate kids to stay away from bad company,try their best in school and have manners to their parents.Bad behaviour was reported to parents or the school.I always feel very motivated when an elder would tell me good stories about one of my relatives.By encouraging each others' children I think they will achieve more than parents trying to do it alone.
Some of the children i pass on the road dont have any manners and they think they reach on top of the world because they wear nice clothes.
This is a good time to educate the children about local weather.This include some of the early signs that they should look out for to prevent getting hurt.