Bhubaneswar: Children are protected by their parents until they become adults because it is known that society is cruel, brutal. It will criticize, bash and troll but the child has to learn and move ahead in life. Life teaches the lesson through ups and downs, a lot of turbulence. The teaching of life is an unending, continuous process. Parents prepare the child for the upheavals of life because life throws many challenges at you, the morals, teachings one gets during their childhood.
The emotion and the emotional quotient ingrained within a child by his/her parents during childhood work as a talisman to cope up in his/her later life. So whenever a child is learning something in the school or from any tutor, the parents should also learn the task with equal amount of passion. It is not just a matter of sending the child to the teacher then becoming free of responsibility. Spending time, energy and becoming a learner yourself then teaching your child the same has a greater impact to excel them.
There can be the best way to teach a child the right path by showing them the practical consequences of their decision in a subtle manner instead of forcing or putting pressure on them. By pressuring them or instantly negative their point of views, the feeling of rebelliousness can occur in their minds.
When it comes to raising a girl child, there are many societal pressure, stigmas that come your way, especially for the parents who want to give the girl an independent life. The patriarchal mindset is such that we never can understand if a girl is going slightly out of the way that the society has set for her. Starting from education, earning money, choosing a different profession than the ideal ones to marrying or embracing motherhood late. Society scrutinizes you excessively and brutally. The simple sentence that anybody mentions about a successful girl is ‘ you are not our daughter but our son’, as if only a son can do the best things, earn good money, become successful and take care of the family. The discrimination lies within the mindset so deep that it comes out whether one realises it or not.
The primary gender discrimination begins from home, from parents, when they preach the roles, duties and responsibilities of a girl and a boy. The deep rooted patriarchal mindset reflects when the very small day to day activities are undertaken on a normal routine within a family and by the parents, relatives, and society as a whole.
-OdishaAge
