Today is International Day of Girl Child. The day aims to spread awareness about girl children of the country and the world and how to give them equal opportunities in life to progress and move ahead in their careers. If you are having a husband or in-laws or relatives who have taunted you several times for giving birth to a girl child, here are some ways how you can change their mentality towards girl children.
Man, his family beaten for eloping with girl of another community
1) Show them the potential of having a girl child:
Despite living in the 21st century where men and women equally have achieved many things on their own, there is still a section of society that thinks that girl children are not a boon to society. If your husband and in-laws follow the same mindset, then obviously your girl child would not be feeling safe with them. It is in your hands to change her situation by helping your girl child to learn new things, new languages, crafts, arts, scientific methods, and several other things that she likes and is capable of. Seeing your girl child progress in her academics and other spheres of life will automatically shut the mouths of people who keep mocking and taunting girl children for their limitations.
Another tribal woman tortured, forced to carry her husband on shoulders in MP
2) Treat your girl child the way you want yourself to be treated:
Probably you had limitations while growing up and didn’t get the required environment to grow in your life. Let the same thing not get repeated with your girl child. Give her the needed respect and freedom that she demands. Help her think positively and look at opportunities over shortcomings in life. If your girl child is being asked to only do household chores and not focus on her academics by other family members of your home, you become her cheerleader. You tell her how multi-tasking is the natural ability of a girl or a woman and how managing both chores and academics will help her shine bright in her life.
3) Make your girl child bold, brave, and also soft-spoken:
If your in-laws don’t give the needed affection to your girl child just because she is born as a girl, you don’t need to teach her to show her agitated side to them. Instead, you should teach her to respect differences and still be benevolent towards her grandparents and father. You can teach her to speak confidently and live bravely for the rest of society wherein she is given less or treated wrongly. Teach her certain life skills that will always help her to move in life with full confidence and bravery.
4) Help your husband to understand your girl child:
Probably due to a lack of communication between your husband and your girlchild, there will surely be understanding differences. But your job is not to add fire to the already existing differences. Instead, you should appreciate both your husband and your girlchild in front of each other so that they come to a common page whenever the bonding evolves naturally.
