“My Daughters’ Mum Part 1” by Natasha Badhwar -

Listen to the children, I remind myself. It is the least we owe to the people who are always listening to us.

Wait. What did I just say there? Children don’t listen to us! This is the complaint every parent seems to have. Yet, when I look at our kids looking at us, I feel like I can hear the laser scanner in their brain going wzzz-wzzz as it copies everything it sees and hears.

It is not easy to listen to children. Our patriarchal family setup has taught us that they are not supposed to matter. We are meant to train and mould them into proper human beings. We expect resistance, as if they are a lower form of life. Their innocence and clear-eyed insights are misconstrued for a lack of intelligence.”

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