Train Up Your Kids

Every parent who is thoughtful and caring wants to train the kids.  Politeness...taking care of themselves...watching out for danger...using their words...how to read...how to work...how to express feelings...  We have all manner of things we want to train the kids to do and say and feel and be.

And it varies from place to place.  What some parents in Kenya must train their kids to do is different from the American situation.

Many Kenya parents must teach their kids WHAT TO DO WHEN THE ELEPHANT COMES and WHAT TO DO WHEN THE LION COMES.  Because you do different things for elephants and lions. Nairobi city parents don't worry about that, but up in Nanyuki area!  And around Narok and other places!  The elephant wants to eat the corn, and the lion might want to eat the goats.  So what does a ten-year-old kid do?  There is a plan, and some of our kids at Made in the Streets have had to deal with these circumstances.

Not to mention the elephants ("the masters") and the lions (predators) out on the streets where some spent 3 or 5 or 7 years as little kids before coming to MITS.

So...now and then please say a prayer for kids whose lives are far different from those kids you have raised.