Pastor Mokoro-Stop lecturing your kids about being poor

Outspoken Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor Elizabeth Mokoro has yet again sparked debates online with her preaching. 

In one of her preachings, Mokoro told off parents who have on many occasions told their children about their poverty, in a way of guilt tripping them as they take up their parenting responsibilities. 

"Never make the mistake of telling a child you are paying their school fees and you don't have money to buy a shirt. They did not ask to be born, what connection is there between a shirt and their school?" she asked.  

"Oh ati, natembea uchi kwa sababu nawalipia school fees, stop it. Don't tell your children that."

Additionally, Mokoro encouraged her congregants to plan well, and have the children they can take good care of, without imposing stress on them. 

"If you knew it would be hard, you could simply have one child, and if it is even harder, just stay the two of you. But don't keep on reminding children that you can't dress well," she said. 

"We can still tell our children to work hard without referring to our poverty."

This is not the first time the pastor has sparked debates. Last month, she advised young women to consider marriage at 21 years old. 

Mokoro said that parents should understand that their children are grown-ups and they should let them go and handle their lives. 

"Some parents have 30, 40-year-olds in their homes because you are scared, let them go. These are young men who can't handle marriage, you are afraid because you think you did not parent," she said. 

She noted that at 21, a lady should be able to know how to manage a home, cook for the family, and constantly do her calculations right. 

"When girls reach 28 years of age, they begin to panic, they are worried if they will ever get married. So what they get is a man either their age or slightly older by one or two years," she said. 

"Those guys won't stay married, it takes the Grace of God for them to stay. And many of them do a year or two and they call it quit."

Mokoro added that women were created to think better, intellectually they are way too far from men. 

"A woman at 21 is so marriageable, she will get to 23 and feel like she has dated you for so long because you are not proposing to her."