Gloria Busungu : Who will speak on their Behalf?

“Today’s children have no manners, they don’t respect elders, they speak foul language, they don’t wear decent clothes neither do they perform well in any activity that they are assigned to”. This was a sound of a woman complaining about the generation born in 1990’s and above.

Maybe she is right, maybe she is not, I don’t judge her, but her statement reminded me of one term Garbage in-Garbage out, in computing and other fields, it is used to express the idea that incorrect or poor-quality input will produce faulty output.
Before we complain about how they behave let’s have a look at what we give them. First as kids they grow in a noise environment (music, insults, and televisions). And as of now even in villages where a family may not have a radio, they hear them in streets even boda-boda play music’s freely. They just take in all they get and according to their age they may even not know what is the best thing for them, they don’t know the right cloth to wear, the music to listen to, the newspaper, magazine and books to read, the TV show to watch to, they just input everything they environment gives them.  They grow in the environment where parents are busy so as teachers, nobody take the right responsibility to put in them the right information they need, one day I heard a parent says “I’m glad my son is 5 years now I can forward him to teachers so that they can teach him manners” at the same time teachers also complain that this pupil /students have no manners we leave the burden to their parents.  Parents are busy working, running small businesses which is a good thing, but they don’t even get an hour in a day to talk to their children or even teach them manners.
If that’s the case, then what do expect out of their behavior? They will just give out what they get in. We complain about the behavior of the young generation, without concentrating on the what exactly made them the way they are, there is nothing wrong with the young generation, they just give out what they have received, you can’t plant a lemon and expect watermelon to grow out of it.
Parents, Sisters, Teachers and Neighbors all of us should take a responsibility of making sure that the young generation receive better inputs so that they can be better citizens.

Written on : March 2nd 2018, Gloria Busungu
Topic : Family, Friends and Community

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