22/02/2014
Dilemma of parent from different culture
Parents consider this situation carefully and ‘as if you were a child’.
The voice a child:
I am a child born to parents from Ghana, upper east region. I am 11years old. I grew up with my mother and father alone at home and no other relatives. My father and mother work very hard to make me happy and pay the bills.
I should have been happy as we live in a lovely house. However I dread going home after school. I love my parents; I just feel very upset and confused when they want me to live like a northern child. What is it like being a northern child? What is expected of me? I hear them say: ‘in the north children are seen and not heard’, ‘that if an elder speaks I don’t ask questions, that they worked hard in the farm to make a living!
I walk quietly to my room to escape all these demands which I don’t understand! They don’t seem to care or listen to my confusion. My teacher tells me to ask questions, my teacher is an elder, isn’t this confusing? My friends play freely with everyone and eat what they like, kinda weird am not allowed that freedom. Well you know what?! I will say nothing and do nothing, just be in my room. After all, am supposed to be a northern child who has no farm to go to!
Hey! I am not allowed to do that too because my parents have asked the pastor to come pray for me as I have behaviour problems! What?????????????!
questions:
How did you feel honestly reading the voice?
How would you want your parents to respond to you?
Now come back to your parent mood and answer the question above.
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