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Mind of a Woman: Who is my Child?

2023-06-19T13:59:06+00:00

By Virtue Digest

Do you really know that young adult you mothered?Parents, especially mothers, are assumed to be the closest to the child (in their early years). But simply living together, eating together and sleeping under the same roof is not enough to claim knowledge of your child.Do you feed your children with what they like or what you think they need?Do you free them to express themselves freely or confine them to what will bring honour to you in your own circle?How often do you take time to discuss sex or better still, premarital sex, its advantages and disadvantages, with them?Or, do you think it’s too sacred to be talked about?Come on, move closer to these friends-for-life of yours before someone else would show understanding and usurp you! Regard them as independent people who need guidance (not moulding) with understanding from you.Stop seeing them as an extension of that foetus that used to depend on you for everything! No, do a good job at recollecting YOU as a teenager or young adult. What you got from the adults around you then that is paying off for you now, give to your children. What you shouldn’t have been given but was forced down your throat, do not offer them, and watch them grow to make you proud.…to be continued.