A girl child !

 

Having noticed this girl washing the courtyard of a residential cum shopping complex on several occasions, I decided to take some pictures recently!

I felt touched with the sense of responsibility with which she was engaged in what she was doing!

A girl child in early childhood is already a meaningful contributor to life in the family. She was sharing in the work load at home and growing up to be a woman of insight and purpose.  

And yet, I grieve over how a girl child is less than a boy child to some parents. A father left his wife on the day his child was born because she was a girl child!

I have reasons to believe from my experience of forty years in child development that mothers carry memories of how they were differentiated from their brothers at home. The same mothers perpetuate a preferential attitude towards their sons. 

This girl in the photo is a message to us about the richness that girl children bring to our homes in different ways. They earn their right to be received as equal to their brothers. 

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)