Rosey Sembatya, a teacher passionate about children and the ever charming writer of the children’s book- WHERE CAN l START? A Guide to Introducing Sex Education to Children, was hosted by Goethe-Zentrum Uganda, together with FEMRITE-Uganda Women Writers Association on Wednesday 20th October 2021 6pm EAT.
The online session that was hosted via zoom and live streamed via Facebook and YouTube was moderated by the ever cheerful Luganda Poet, the President/ Founder of Poets’ Association Uganda and CEO of Stubborn Poetry Uganda, Ronald K. Ssekajja. The topic discussed centered around how to groom children and good parenting skills.
As a parent, you need to keep a consistent style that you desire to groom your children to grow with, because children thrive on consistency.
Another topic of the event was about Business Growth in the Art World/Literary Arts in Uganda. Rosey Sembatya owns a mobile library for children’s books [Malaika Children’s Mobile Library] and she mentions the dangers of starting business based on the idea of passion, that sometimes you get caught up and forget about the “BUSINESS SENSE.” “l need business managers to help me improve on the business sector of my business.” she outcries.
Ms Rosey Sembatya believes that when it comes to children and self care and even sexuality with children, emulating and modeling, imitating those around them is how they learn, if those around them are taking care of themselves, laughing, reading, treating each other well, then the child is gonna emulate them.
The moderator of the event, Ronald Kasirivu Ssekajja has read the 21/23 chapter book in detail and he gives us a good chat about it when the author of the night momentarily loses connection (Network in Uganda is to beg for abeg but we moooove) he wonders more about structure, how to make children your friends, how to talk to your daughter when she gets her first menstrual periods, he recognizes the good story telling trait in Rosey Sembatya’s ability to avoid the problem common with self help books, she thinks self help books are depressing, Ronald K. Ssekajja notices her ability to make a guide book interesting to read, her ability to bring multilingualism to her book, mixing the use of Luganda and English.
It was truly a great evening spent talking about children and sex and reading and thanks to the powers of the internet, it was also a reunion of writers from both Uganda and the Diaspora. Shout out the organizers at FEMRITE and Goethe Zentrum. Cheers.