BICC MOTHER’S DAY HIGH TEA

I was honoured to have been invited as a guest speaker at a mother’s day event organized by Umodzi park. I was asked to talk about the values parents or mothers pass on to their children. I tackled a number of things but key in my presentation was that we are always passing on values on a daily basis both intentionally and unintentionally. I also mentioned that while values differ from one person to another, whatever a person considers important to them, that will be the value that will be passed on to their kids. It was important for me to articulate the fact that we have 5 unintentional values that may be passed on to our kids albeit at a huge cost namely: performance based, gift based, culture based, status based and history based values. I concluded by stating that the best values to give your children should be those that build their character, the ones that make them become good people in society because I do believe that the most important thing you can pass on to your kids, is the gift of allowing them be who they are; whatever that may be

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