Thread by @wmnjoya

To understand the problem with #CBCKe, it seems we need a discussion on
1. difference between childhood and adulthood
2. What knowledge is and why it matters
3. The role of emotions and intimacy
4. The importance of privacy.

All these other things about jobs etc is just noise.

The fundamental difference between childhood and adulthood is social responsibility for actions whether individual or social. When kids play, they play for fun and enjoy themselves. They learn collaboration, expression and creativity.

But adults are conscious of consequences.

So when kids are playing a wedding on their own, it is very different from when adults facilitate them and watch them doing it.

Kids on their own are just having fun. After all,in real weddings, they know that they are not the bride and groom but the flower girls and page boys.

In fact, the role of adults is to ensure that the play doesn't stray into adult behavior like kissing or even fighting.

So when adults are the ones who facilitate the role play, they remove the sense of play and now show kids that they can perform the adult role in weddings.

Surely, how can we be treading such dangerous ground when teenagers are being raped and getting pregnant at the early age of 14? Others are seeing their school being shut off by marriage?

Gosh! It's like we've gone mad.

CBC crossed the line into sacrilege when it said that kids must be trained for employment, and that we are only going to teach kids what to do and not what to know. Adult teachers started playing the games with kids which kids normally played on their own.

I can't imagine why Kenyans cant see the urgency of stopping CBC. The effect on our kids will be trauma. Kids will not know the boundaries between play and seriousness, they will not be able to find internal motivation to act, and they will lose a sense of privacy.

Are jobs worth dehumanizing our children? What is this obsession with jobs when children have no sense of feelings, of boundaries or responsibility? Are jobs even guaranteed, when you're the same ones telling youth not to seek employment?

Jeesu! What are we doing to children?

Today I've felt the same horror about CBC that I felt in 2017. What are we doing to our children?

God, is it possible for a people to be this blind?

https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/938661089864273920?s=19

Parents are gladly calling "fun" a school system preparing their kids for mental problems in adulthood. Is the mental unwellness already around us not enough, that we must now mainstream it?