We must teach children positive values during the long holidays

Children are home for a whole two months, thanks to new school rules set by the reassuringly efficient Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i.

You see, we are a funny society where we even protest against a chance to have time and bond with our own children. One would expect that a conscientious parent would do anything to have ample time with their children. But it comes as no surprise at all that we are even grumbling it will be costly to have them around that long. It reminds me of a seemingly energetic man I saw in Westlands, Nairobi, who went round begging for cash on the grounds that “I am a father of seven”.