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Buganda Kingdom premier (Katikkiro) Charles Peter Mayiga has urged parents and guardians to desist from pampering their Children.

The Katikkiro’s warning comes days after students of a private secondary school flew in a hired chopper and a multitude of top-of-the-range vehicles for a school party (prom).

The incident sparked widespread condemnation from social media across the country, with many criticising the school, while others blamed the parents for not providing proper guidance.

These days, schools take the prom party vibe to a whole other level. Students turn up for the party in expensive outfits and cars.

“I do not know what is happening in schools these days, how do you allow a student to come in a helicopter just to dance with a fellow student. Parents you are spoiling your children, it is said that if you do not make them cry when they are still young, they will make you cry when you are old,” Katikkiro said.

The Katikkiro who was addressing Buganda Lukiiko at Bulange Mengo in Kampala on Monday, May 6, 2024, posed a question to parents, how do they allow their children to come to schools in helicopters and expensive cars.

“Why would you hire a helicopter or an expensive car, what are you trying to prove, those children you are pampering will not have respect, do not spoil your children,” he said.

Mayiga suggested to parents to always give their children a budget to run on.

“Even if you have money, give them a budget, tell them how they should spend the money and they should be able to explain to you how they spend the money. Do not allow the children to pick your cars to go and dance,” Mayiga said.

This generation of parents is guilty of being what child development experts term as “push-over” parents. They buy their children all the latest gadgets and toys, wash, clean, cook and iron without making children pitch in, and go ahead to do their children’s homework and assignments.

Over the weekend, the Rev. Fr. Edward Muwanga, the parish priest of St Charles Lwanga Ntinda Catholic Parish in Kampala, issued an apology for an incident in which a young girl drove a toy electric car down the church aisle.