Boy’s viral clip a report card on poor parenting and school life today

A father teaches his daughter how to read. [Courtesy]

Last weekend, Kenyans became party to a rather interesting spectacle about a young male pupil said to be a pupil at Consolata School here in the city. This boy decides to take his grievances about some fellow classmates online - and he used rather colourful language and made some rather graphic and bizarre threats.

His video was a fusion of an episode of Jerry Springer and the Love and Hip Hop reality shows. As expected, the outrage and pontification was instant, with Kenyans from all walks of life offering their couch side analysis, diagnosis and prescription of the situation. In my view, this clip was really a wake-up call and a report card of parenting and school life these days. Let us start with the simple fact that parenting these days is hard.