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Lack of proper parenting skills causing poor performance among boys

18th June, 2018

The boy child. Depicted as the bastion of bad dance styles like odi dance, refusing to study, refusing to take responsibility, refusing to marry, and when married refusing to act married whilst fatherhood is reduced to selfies once a month or at best, a week, at a fun place where beer is sold 50 metres from the bouncing castle, where he has “lovingly” exiled his children.

Being of this gender myself I have pondered the question of what went wrong? When did the proverbial rain start beating us? My first thought is on parenting: in many households the only chore the boy child does is play. Whilst the girl child is on her toes helping from the word go.

The girl child is told how to sit and how to be mannered. The girl child is helping with cooking and cleaning while the boy child is outside playing. The boy child grows without discipline and without particular purpose in the home. He takes on the role of a lazy lion that roars for the females in his imagined pride to meet his every need. Don’t think of it as a decent roar; It is a tantrum.

Thrown in anger or tears but a tantrum nonetheless. Since most societies are patriarchal, the boy child is told he is a man and a leader at between 10 and 14 years of age. While the girl child is taught to care for the family, the boy child emulates the father; who is hardly home and hardly speaks when he is at home. Care is provided by quantities of cash and problems are handled by long visit

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