Kababa Generation

The 'kababa' generation is fully grown up now and they were never taught how to take NO for an answer. Always got what they wanted.

This is the same group that was burning down schools, now they are out in the world slaughtering each other in the name of love, yet love is kind, love is patient and keeps no record of wrong.

The Kababa generation has gone through schooling with no punishment. Piga mtoto wangu utaniona, is what we hear in parent-teachers meetings and in the estates neighbor to neighbor.

It is the generation that the girl child is more empowered than the boy child, yet we expect them to compete at the same levels.

Boys are teaching themselves how to become men instead of being taught by responsible men what it means to be a real man. The mums never let them interact with the dad or uncles or male relatives coz walikosana na baba, or had beef with inlaws or feel the uncles are too hard on her kababa, my munchkin , my king, my bae, my love, my man in the house and all those fancy false titles.

This is the generation where they throw tantrums and cry for the remote control 'mpe mtoto remote awatch cartoon' , no news since the 'kababa' is watching Ben Ten. Visitors can go watch tv at their place anyway.

Electronics are what parents are using to make their children calm.

What happened to the old ways of bringing up children?

Where did we throw the teaching from the Holy Book; spare the rod spoil the child?

It is only in this generation where a father has no moral obligation of punishing their son in fear of breaking a 'relationship' (God help us here)

Where did the rain start beating us?

Whom did we offend.