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    "content": "So, these are some of the issues that the Government and all the other stakeholders, especially parents must be involved in. It is important for parents to know how their children are growing. This is the age where the child gains confidence. This is also the stage where a child can be able to tell you what is good and what is bad. This is the age where they are very frank; they never lie. This determines how they will move to the next level. In early childhood, you have to think of nutrition because one of the challenges in the rural areas is that most children lack nutrition. In some of the schools in Nairobi, they are provided with tea and milk whereas in the rural areas, many children are suffering from malnutrition although they are very bright. If a child comes to school when he or she is hungry, then that child is unable to concentrate and to listen to what the teacher is saying. I know in the rural areas, we do not bother with the hours a child has to sleep per day. But in Nairobi and other urban areas, they usually rest at 2.00 p.m. So, while we look at the counties, the teachers must understand that these are very young children and they need to be given an opportunity to enhance their brains and even to rest as they grow up. I know in Kakamega, the Governor had included this in his blue print. He had even set the salaries and people had applied to be employed. Therefore, it is something that just needs to be rolled out. I know the national Government has not been able for all those years to pay the early childhood education teachers. I beg to support."
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