Let your child be a child

By John Muturi

You have seen that innovative commercial on your TV screens with the rider: ‘Play and grow’. When it first popped up on the screen — just before my popular TV programme, — I dismissed it for just another manufacturer’s gimmick to advance sales. It displayed children playing in a dirty environment, then soccer and finally in the racetrack with their bikes. On the onset, it appeared like a time-wasting activity and thinking about the adage, ‘Time is money’ I would rather the children were in a classroom or doing homework with the assistance of their parents.