DOES IT MATTER IF OUR CHILDREN LEARN OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES?

Hello Fam,the only sugar in my garri..lol i know its unlike me to have missed a day without a post coming your way but yours truly have been so busy and i know you all understand.. So today became one hell of a busy day but i didn't fail to notice something that i am going to share with you. I was at a shop where i wanted to get something, the owner of the shop is Yoruba then i was so surprised when her children who were born and breed in the eastern part of the country came in and greeted i and my cousin, kneeling you know how the Yoruba's gestate when the greet. I finally got the shock of my life when these adorable children, the elder one to be precise started asking their mum something in their language then i was forced to ask the woman if they just moved to the east recently.. She replied that it is the way she is bringing her children up that is why the can speak and hear the Yoruba language, when i mean speak they are very fluent and the also know a little bit of Igbo language,am sure the will also be sound if the stay a little longer meaning the would know and speak two Nigerian language, how wonderful it would be that they can communicate with their parents in their own language and still be able to communicate with people from the east without problems. Then i also remembered that i once met a lady who was born and brought up in the UK, her Yoruba is very sound just like her British english..LOL I have also met people who were born and breed in the east whose parents are of same tribe but can not speak their language, some do not even understand when spoken to. That brings me to my thought; so if i want to communicate with my children in the presence of some one who does not understand the language we use at home and i don't want them to understand,i may not because i decided that i want them to learn English and forgot that learning one Nigerian language even if its not my tribe's own is of importance. When i did my National Youth Service,i could not communicate very well with some of the villagers because language was a barrier, then i thought if i had learnt another language aside Igbo language which is my local language or the schools i attended had offered it maybe i wouldn't have had so much problem. Some children are even forced to learn this English language which no doubt is important yet some are not so sound and yet the can't speak their own local language,it is really funny tho when you hear some of their grammar. It can literally make some one develop running stomach.. I feel as long as both parents are of the same tribe, they should try and teach their children their local language, speak to them even if the do not learn how to speak well atleast let them understand it so that one day some one will not come and sell them with their own father tongue..lol Parents can also enroll their children for extra moral lessons on Nigerian languages,you will see the joy the children will derive in learning. Try this and believe me its not a waste at the same time make sure their English is very sound,its our Lingua Franca.