Dear MIMsters: Why People Should Stop Looking Down on Children and Women Living in Villages | My Story
I am sharing my story to advice parents not to look down on children and women living in the village.
You see when I was a child, we lived in the village even though our parents are civil servants and we were properly taken care of.
We the children, all five of us were sent to good private boarding schools in the city. But it still hurt me so much that when my uncle and his family who lived in the city treated us like village children. We kept hearing names like ‘this village children’ and so on.
When we were in primary school, these children who resided in the city like Lagos would come home speaking pidgin English to us as we followed them up and down. This was very common in my hometown.
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Parents who reside outside the village would make their children feel much more important than those in the village. They see these children as rural dwellers and often, these children are intimidated. Even their parents see rural women as rags.
This was our state, nevertheless, we longed to see them every year even though we knew we meant nothing to them. Their Dad, my uncle would boldly tells us that Lagos is far and he can’t bring his children to the village. But today, the situations have been revised.
Out of five us, four of us are now graduates and living well. Our last boy is still in school studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering. One of us is now a practicing lawyer right there in Lagos. That uncle of mine who made that statement is now late and his rich Lagos children can never be compared to us. To the Glory of God, we have achieved much more than they who looked down on us.
We all are in our early and late twenties. Now God has visited us and our levels have changed for good. However, I still feel bad whenever I travel to the village and find rural children being treated that way till date.
The point that I am making here is to advise parents residing outside the villages (in towns and cities) to stop looking down on rural women and children because in these people lie great potentials limited by their environment.