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The choices one makes on the first week in high school makes or breaks all future prospects

Posted on November 11, 2020November 12, 2020 by Kibaki Muthamia
The choices one makes on the first week in high school makes or breaks all future prospects

Well, that iconic first day in high school.

Ain’t we all bursting with energy, ambition and purpose-driven desire to make our folks proud? Grand dreams to achieve and rise as a trail-blazer for younger kids we have left behind in the village?

You are giddy and high on inspiration from pep talks from a successful uncle. It matters little that he’s had the godfather role thrust upon him for the virtue of being the sole doctor in the region. Oh, he ain’t a medical doctor, just that he’s some PHD.

One is truly psyched to conquer the world.

Machakos High students in celebration after a past KCSE exam release. (file image)

Barely into the first week in high school, you realize that life and the world aren’t possibly orbiting on the same line.

No laws of God or Science can explain what happens on the first week in high school. It’s just a week in real time, but the week leaves a complete paradigm shift on an entire life’s trajectory.

A naïve, innocent lad from some tiny village in some obscure village learns entire life basics in a week.

Like, being mean for no reason can make you the bigger person. Not necessarily a better person, but the bigger person. For high school life is akin to life in the kingdom of apes – bigger is better than better.

For some reason, older boys will forfeit rest and sleep to make yours impossible.

Is this really an institution of learning, or did you make a wrong turn to end up in a boot camp for imbeciles, bullies and child soldiers?

What intellectual gain is there in making fake calls to your relatives from a smelly shoe? How boring will life in school be, if a crowd of seniors will find it funny enough to burst in laughter for every word you utter in a feigned call?

The first week teaches one the benefits of association.

It pays to make connections and network with influential people in the society.

On that first week, to be familiar with someone influential saves you loads of pain and discomfort. If the main school bully comes from your village, or shares the same last name – you are safe. It’s fruitful on first glance, but that association may end up messing your entire future – not just in high school.

It pays to have money, or exist from a lineage with money.

However, very few people are born into a rich lineage. The good thing is that it’s not an exclusive class. One can always work from scratch, or poverty to be rich. One first becomes rich, then works on to become wealthy.

It requires financial discipline and money management skills to be successful. The basic rule is always earn more than you spend – and the balance is secured in savings. The saving discipline is hard to teach, and requires infinite patience and ambition.

The best way to instill or learn the saving discipline is to teach it to kids early. Once this concept is grasped at an early age, the values are carried onto adulthood.

Presently, there is a financial institution with an incentive that’s proved to be a useful tool in imparting financial knowledge to kids.

The Jumbo Junior Bank Account, with Co-op Bank.

This is a transitional account from Co-op Bank that’s designed for children below the age of 18 years.

It’s an ideal teaching tool in the general basics of finance, and the value of building savings.

This account also gives your kids instant membership to the elite Jumbo Junior Club.

To sign up, or learn more about Jumbo Junior, visit the nearest Co-op Bank branch, or click here.

The Big Bank Account….For Little People!

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Why on earth does everyone miss those miserable days in high school?

Posted on November 8, 2020November 9, 2020 by Kibaki Muthamia
Why on earth does everyone miss those miserable days in high school?

Life in high school was, at best, a miserable time.

It’s a wonder, and one of life’s greatest mysteries why everyone misses it.

Is it the food, whose broth was indefinitely afloat with black weevils? That daily bread would be eternally damned as food not even fit for death row prisoners, but, still……

The administration would go one rung lower on the ladder of humanity by garnishing the weevil-infested meals with a dash of kerosene.

H_Art the Band, role play. (file image)

Is it the crazy hours for the morning preps?

In high school, there was none of that patronizing line: “Hey, am kind of a morning person, you know…”

The penalty for missing the 4.30 AM call (and, getting caught), was hauling bedding to the central parade square, and spending the day tucked in. Forget the hot overhead sun for a moment, the load of judgmental stares from schoolmates would be unnerving, and haunt you for weeks.

Not all gloom, though.

High school had two categories of people: the grumps, and, the life enthusiasts.

If you loved high school, and didn’t kind of wish the intermittent teacher’s strikes to go on forever – you were the former. A grump.

The others would be life enthusiasts.

Different things helped people get through this phase.

For once, high school was flush with books to read. Yes, pun intended. Fun books to read, not the complex, tiresome arithmetic books. Novels.

The favorite books were the inspirational kind.

Books like Think Big, by Ben Carson. An incredible brain surgeon’s story of humble beginnings in a single-parent household fraught with challenges to conquer the world of medicine. That book would leave your head throbbing. For a week or so, you’d be so high and psyched on inspiration that you’d actually attempt Physics assignments.

The second week, you’d be back to copy pasting Mark’s assignments.

Mark was a celebrated, self-confessed Grump. School heads of departments would almost get into physical fights to have him as a prefect or captain in their departments.

Another book that ranked closely was Rich Dad, Poor Dad, an emasculate rendition of bad and super-bad parenting by Robert Kiyosaki, and Sharon Lechter. On paper, it advocates the importance of financial literacy, and education.

In reality, the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad would be an orthodox scale we’d use to gauge our parents – and they’d always be found wanting. They’d hopelessly fall short of the ideal and accepted levels of parenting.

Not once, did I see a high school kid content, as appertains to parenting levels. The levels were inadvertently raised by these inspirational books!

There’s no proof yet, but this generation has spawned the modern inspirational speakers, and entrepreneurs.

A motivational speaker cum entrepreneur up on stage, in a sharp, rented Italian suit will go:

“I own a multi-million dairy business with hundreds of dairy cows and employs thousands of workers on a daily basis. I started all this – pause for effect – with a pair of gumboots….”

Well, as a parent now, take it as a task to teach your kids the mathematics of money.

If so inclined, every kid should learn financial accounting, and perfect it. Then, savings discipline. Luckily, there are structures and banking partners helping you to start as early as possible.

The Jumbo Junior Bank Account, with Co-op Bank.

Co-op Bank has a transitional account that’s a perfect tool to teach the saving culture to kids, and financial discipline that will be beneficial in their adulthood. It’s designed for children below the age of 18 years, for the safe keeping of money.

Besides, there’s a load of unbelievable benefits, like, automatic membership to the elite Jumbo Junior Club.

To sign up, or learn more about Jumbo Junior, visit the nearest Co-op Bank branch, or click here.

The Big Bank Account….For Little People!

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