When children pack their bags, all headed to that particular university to advance their academics since education is ad to be the key, parents are left in that tiny or mammoth compound smiling since their dreams have come true.
Not all students stay with their parents, and in fact if the campus happens to be near their residential area, some children will raise all manner of concerns and excuses over ‘tight timetable schedule’ so as to convince their parents to secure them a house nearer or from within the campus so that they can effectively undertake their studies.
With such convincing power, the soft heart of a parents who wants their children to excel gives in and meets the demands of their son or daughter. Although some are made out of a genuine heart, from the majority, parents are fooled and fail to understand the following.
Their sons and daughters are party children
When she or leaves the compound, a parent ushers away a church child, very innocent looking but actually when they make a step in to the city, some of them convert their bodies bear brewery as the girls dress naked.
Weekend for them actually begins on Thursday and ends on Tuesday
The town is full parties, clubbing, and if not indoor it is outdoor. Such occasion drugs are common, fornication is done openly and having known of sponsors, that when the girls walk around ‘hunting’ for a client.
Your child may lie to you of school fee hike, a trip o Mombasa, sickness money and even minute and unnecessary needs to be satisfied but the real thing is, the money is meant to finance bear, purchase of condoms and p2 pills, fuel a hired car and her quarana.
When it comes to sex, to them is like daily bread
This may sound shocking to a parent but actually it is true. The amount of it they have within the four years may be more than you as parents you have end in your entire life. Much of pocket money is spent on p2 pills, condom lubricants and luring unsuspected freshmen to bed by buying them things like pizza, bear and even other drugs.
And when p2 and condoms fail what happens? News headlines that a foetus was found dumped in dustbin site hits all media station. As a parent do you question your mind whether it was your daughter who did that or your son who fathered that aborted childe?
They have already “married”, babysitting kind of relationship as mostly known as come we stay.
Your daughter or son may actually be babysitting another fellow of opposite sex within or around that room your par rent for using that small income from your minute salary your company pays you, or that money you sweat for.
If she has not brought in a man, he has brought in a ‘wife’ but may never turn him or her physically at home for formal introduction as his or her ‘spouse’. Your girl maybe cleaning his dirty clothes, warms his bed as he throw in cheap vodka, sponsor her bangi smoking session and engage in quarrelsome night.
You son is heading the gay club while your daughter is girlfriend to that girls she met I town.
A campus connotes a city, a center where people from all walks of life meet with all having different goals to achieve, and in this case, the different degrees.
Your son maybe chasing after other men for ‘conjugal’ while this girls is busy hanging out with her ‘galfie’ as they call them. And when asked why woman, she turn around and tell you ‘girls understand girls better’.
Your child has broken hearts of various people, leave alone families brought down by the same child.
Whenever that ‘tycoon’ is travelling around using his car may actually be brought to attention of that flashy and yummy looking girl cat-walking along the road, loose his mind and within no seconds pulls bye, not knowing that was a trap. You charming boy maybe on the hand is driving other men’s wife around.
Branded names like sponsors but commonly known as sugar mummies and daddies, their togetherness may lead a certain marriage to a corner forcing the couples call it done, and breaks the vows via divorce.
Your child may be struggling with HIV and AIDS Trauma in that cubicle or house you pay rent for.
National Aids Control Council made it known that, at least 1.6 million Kenyans are living with the virus. Your child may have acquired it from that sponsor, soulmate, rape in club when drug, or even from sugar mummies and daddies. And your child might be in the list and fears letting you know. Watch out for illness that seems not to de-camp and have him or her checked.
Among other people who cup in public funds , your child may be one, potential MCA or even governor.
Your child may have won the hearts of the comrades and awarded as a post in student leadership through that hot and tuff campaign held in the institution. For a parent, is that not good news? And just like the others, s/he may be pocketing something from the accounts. And that money maybe is being splashed in clubs or spent on that campus girl who won his heart.
But the side one is when you hurl stones or thrash a bicycle thieve seriously inquire from your conscious the lifestyle your child spends in school.
Actually it is not once or twice when that neighboring girl said she has lost bras, bikinis, pants, laptop, phone, woofer, and even houses broken into by unknown assailants. Despite some being said to be “professional burglars’ who committed the incident, some are colleges who snatch them from reading hall, library and even hijacking and violently taking them with their faces masked.
However, the above does not reflect to all students. Only a few of them but the problem is you cannot pinpoint who for all leave home innocent and trustable but the minute they board that bus they shred the family norms and wear campus life attires.