I have taken notice of a recent public dimension that features parents who openly glorify their newly born babies to the world. I thought it was the ladies who normally take delight in adoring babies but no, the men are rather leading the chorus.
On the social media such as Twitter,instagram,facebook, Whatsapp etc and even on the print and electronic media, these elated parents outdoor their neo-nates with very soothing and honorable appellations like “my Angel, my king/queen and so on. Sometimes the future of the kids are encased in the titles these parents call them by including ‘my future president or lawyer or doctor.
Hah! These apparent acts of public display by parents readily informs me about their earnest expectation of a baby after a protracted period of childlessness or a complicated pregnancy. It also reveal how grateful these parents are to the deities.
However,I cannot think very far about why parents become irresponsible when these children begin to grow through adolescence. “Did the parents of these ‘kakayei’ celebrate them after birth?” , I ask.
Did all these school dropouts and hustlers on our streets have parents who once embellished their ceremonies? What about the physically challenged we have found howling for comfort and begging for alms in our societies, did they have happy parents too, who projected the beauty of their birth to the universe?
In their childhood, we called them kings and queens but along the journey, we destooled them.
We called them our lovers but we jilted them when they became a little stubborn to our control.
Did we not call our babies adorable angels, why have we deserted them now to their own faith.
We made the world know that we are capable of producing children but why have we left them to single parenting?
Fathers used to buy everything when the babies were still young but they have stopped providing for these kids when they reached adolescence.
Mothers also provided natural warmth and comfort to these children but at adolescence, these children have been left to the cold weather on the quiet streets of Accra at night.
I do not therefore know whether to term this act as PARENTAL HYPOCRISY or as it were, THE LOVE FOR REPRODUCTION.
Dear parents, please continue loving us even when we become obstinate to your views ok. Don’t ever throw us onto the streets when we become physically challenged. Don’t forget about the first love you had for us when we were in the womb until we were born.
Take us to school,buy us everything we need until we are fit to fend for ourselves ok.
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