Description

Riddles are very crucial in creating nationalist and patriot citizens when compared with other types of oral narratives. It plays a vital role in promoting language skills especially speaking and listening which in turn enable them to be accurate and fluent speaker of a given language. Riddle is not a childish act as many people think from their etic point of view. So, Arsi Oromo teach their children about social, political and economic affairs that directly or indirectly affect the future lives of the children through riddles. But, these days the performance of riddles is highly limited and substituted by other alien games that have no additional benefits except temporary entertainment. Children play is a form of role play or simulation that create interactive situation that enables children to develop mathematical and social schemas that are vital for overall personality construction and like riddles. Children play is important to develop language skills such as speaking and listening that pave away for formal schooling. So, both of them play paramount role in creating an overall personality of new generation.