Teach the children and teach them right

Fathers are heroes to their sons while mothers are teachers to their daughters the old adage goes. But all in all children find enormous inspiration in their parents and elders. It is due to this fact that when children are growing up they should receive instructions from both the parents and elders that will help them become better citizens. Christians and every body else who believes in the theory of creation by God harbours a strong conviction that mankind has a responsibility to make the world a better place. He can do this through recreation because he has a superior mental ability and judgement. The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi demonstrated a grave breakdown in the moral levels of the Rwandan society. It is not a secret that extremists’ families would give support to their children during the Genocide and convinced them that killing a ‘cockroach’ Tutsi was no crime. In everything we do, we should aspire to hand over the planet we inherited to the following generations as a better a place than we found it. This can only be made possible by equipping the young generation with high moral standards with which they can use to transform their society. If the teaching is positive, positive results will be achieved and if they are negative, it will be reflected in the end. Children as young as 15 years or even younger were encouraged to kill their friends or they would go out with their elders on the killing spree either to see how it is done or to be ‘baptised’ into the ‘game’. The Genocidal forces in Rwanda had been incubated for decades to exterminate their Tutsi neighbours and friends. The ideology had been passed down from generation to generation with great emphasis. The Genocide ideological dose that was fed to the children in 1959 came to be full blown in 1994 when over a million Tutsi were massacred. Imagine for all those decades if these people had received instructions to love their country, to work hard and undermine ethnic differences? The development of every nation will depend upon the skills of her human resource but with the destruction of it, Rwandan development was thrown to the dogs. The country’s challenges today premise on changing the attitude of the people and most importantly teaching the young generation what is right so that they can apply this in its lifetime and pass it on to the next. “You straighten a tree while it is still young,” the saying goes and this is the right time to teach the children and teach them right. God bless Rwanda, Africa and humanity. Ends