![]() ![]() Most times, raising a child is seen as a “Mother’s role” but no let the fathers be allowed to play their roles and such “roles” shouldn’t be seen as “help” as this suggests that child care is a mother territory thing. Like the second suggestion which says “Do it together”- for there to be a child they must be the coming together of a man and woman sexually, both the man and woman played a role which led to the birth of the child and there are so much roles to be played by both parents in raising the child. Some of these suggestions sounds “weird” and “difficult” to cure or achieve in our present day society. Ijeawele asked Chimamanda to tell her how to raise her baby girl a feminist- what a request! The author of ‘Dear Ijeawele’- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote a letter to her childhood friend Ijeawele suggesting fifteen manifesto of a feminist as it will serve as a guide in raising her baby girl. But no, every child is uniquely different and has his or her way of doing things, however, parents help in discovering and developing their children as the earliest stage hence, making their dreams a reality. Life would have been much easier if there is a user guide or better still if every child given birth to came along with his or her user manual stating categorically how the child should “operate”. ![]()
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