catch them young!

in Ndebele we say "isgogo sigoqwa sisemanzi". in English they neatly say "catch them young". i think that this is a very simple but befitting message for the church today. if we are going to beat this AIDS thing then we better 'catch them young'

i am talking about introducing and sex education to our sunday schoolers. yeah, i can almost sense the shock and perhaps the outrage; or maybe you agree with me. but my point is : there is no point in not talking to our kids during sunday school about sex and AIDS. coz you know what - they will hear it from their friends at school, in the neighbourhood, practically everywhere.

so by not addressing this issue with our kids, we not protecting them as we think but instead we are ensuring that they are fed poison. there is no way that they won't come across these issues so let's not pretend they are safe from such 'adult' topics'. we actually do ourselves a favour because when we talk to our sunday schoolers about AIDS and sex - we are not shocking them or introducing them to something new. we just giving them the right perspective on something they have heard about countless times before ... in the street, in the playground, egodini, around the neighbourhood....