Parents & Children Vs House helps & Teachers

The other day i boarded a matatu to my work place; A lady with a kid boarded the matatu much later from another stage... I noticed the lady is a house help... First the kid looked like a class one pupil... She was the one telling the house help where they will alight... I was just shaking my head wondering what would it cost a parent to take their kid to school? The young girl had worn her shoes wrongly, untied laces.. Now i was really worried.. So when people alighted at a certain stage the house help wanted to alight too, but the kid insisted "Hatushuki hapa, Bado hatujafika..." What upset me so much is that the parent of this child trusted her/ his kid with a house help who is not even aware of the child's school location?....

Most parents leave or trust their kids with house helps because they are too occupied with their jobs ; hence they don't get time to take care of their children, which is a vital responsibility. I have no problem with house helps but my main concern is the future of those kids or how they even relate with other children in school or in the community.....

My main point here is parents should play their role in the family to their children, nurture them in the right manner and always make time to spend with them; hence they will know what weaknesses, strengths, problems they might be going through every other day. I believe if parents are free and open with their children and give them the love they can, the children will not find it hard sharing what they are going through. But if  they spend most of the time with the house helps who they can't even open up to or who they will trust more and seem as though the house help is the parent.. there is a problem....!!

Parents should take responsibility of their own children as much as the house helps are there....
Parents should not make the house helps the "parents" of their children....
Parents should not make the teachers in school the "parents" of their children...
Parents should play their role by showing love to their children and taking care of them in the right way...and making time for them too...

Furahisha Toto Initiative....