Gee001: Truely Nigerian mentality as sumone rightly said. D mothers take all d blames wen tins go awry in d family especially wen it comes 2 d children while d fathers take all d praises wen d children do well in life.

*Ileke-IdI:
I feel sorry for my husband if he reasons like these Nigerians on NL.

That man will suffer no be small.

Tunjman: I can only answer the question if the op can tell me why the child's first language is called mother's tongue and not father's tongue

solbil: i can feel an anti man sentiment going on in here. Op, are you trying to deny that mothers are the ones who spend more time with the kids? I know the fathers should be visible. But i am sure that you are not going to deny, despite you strong anti man feeling, that no matter the case, on the average, children are more drawn to their mothers than their fathers?

As for those who are quick to say "typical nigerian mentality" well, i think you all are just a bunch of xenocentric people who by chance have found yourselves abroad and now think anything nigeria is inferior! You have become so blinded by your xenocentrism that your intellectual development have been seriously affected! How else can we explain your inability to suspect the simple obvious? That by nature , children are more attached to their mothers than they are to their fathers. And the one who is closer, has more influence.

No! The "patriachal society" did not shape it this way. We have this, becos nature has made children to be drawn more to their mothers. So if you are angry, direct your anger against nature. Not men.

RKVINTLTD: Hello Nairalanders !

I salute your ideas to the contribution because every one idea is important consideration on this matter.

May I tell you that A child is owned by persons (Father & Mother), without the 2 one can not hold. Once a Child is born, the responsibility and upkeep becomes the liability of both parents.

Considering the issue on ground;

It is only the man that is working, the woman is not working, the woman is always at home She knows the behaviour of the children more than the father. She surppose to have been informing the Father about the behaviour of the children right from their early age as they grow for the father to intervene.

No matter how, The father also hold it a point of duty on at least once a week to monitor and examine the attitude of the children. The children would have been caught unaware by their father if he actually monitors the children under his care. After all Father is the head of the home.

Many spoilt children today are as a result from break in marriage, Father's negligence, improper monitoring of children, idleness of the children, mix with pears and social interractions which depends in where the child lives.

The environment a Child lives have a great influence on his behaviour since behaviour is a learned attitude from the society. Exposition to bad attitude is a common thing in our society today, take for instance; children living their both parents' home to watch Football Championship leage outside their home, the children mixed up with bad boys smoking indian hemp and Gambling.

Finally, I will say both the Man and Woman are responsible for the misfortune of their wards or children. Shifting blame now is not the issue. 'Whose parents are these children ?' or 'From which Family are children from ?'

We parents need to take proper care of our children jointly and monitor / control their behaviour. This is our duty as Parents, nobody is going to do it for us. Any problem created by one family becomes a cluster of societal problem which we are facing in Nigeria today.

Everybody want to be rich at all cost without even working hard. No one is ready to go back to Farm, No one is ready to go through the pains of getting the knowledge required to become a professional or an inventor.

How to get rich quick is the attitude of youth of today. Few youth can only be found reading at home today or going to the Library, except those preparing for exams, which surpose not to be so. Children should be able to read through their notes about what they were tought in school on daily basis.

Our Government as well need a lot to do, to provide Library facilities in all schools and make is compulsory for students to read after school hours before they go home.

Probably Student could the grouped to study on schedule in the Library and closely monitored by Chief Librarian who schedule time since the Library may not contain them at a time.

Public Library need to be sponsored by Fedral Government well enough if they want a children of High value in life and to the society.

Both parents are responsible for the falt or misconduct of their children. The chidren that committed an offence before the age of 18yrs are taken to Infantory court or Infantory Tribunal because they are still not ripe enough to be judged by the Law of the land, therefore their parents are to be blamed for their misconducts.

Thanks.

idowuswap: Igbos can not take care of thier children na who go con teach them maybe govt.just bcus of money they full everywhere like flies on top shit.committing atrocities,i think agbarry ojukwu ran like fowl when jungle mature.shiiiiiiitttttttt

ciphoenix: when it comes to teenagers, the pattern changes. Its no longer "children are more attached to their mothers". True, mothers spend more time with "children", that doesn't justify blaming them when the children turn out badly

tavon: Because African culture is against feminism. A womans job is the kitchen and the kids and if theres a problem its the woman's fault.

A friend of mine once asked me has your father ever cooked for the family before. Even on your moms birthday?

It was then i realized that we dont treat our women as equals.

jidegirl12: @dayo lol you just don't take crap when it comes to lazy bums.

@ cooger kids needs a father figure at home, in their lives most especially male kids... It's unfortunate the father has to work solely around the clock to cater for the whole family but at a certain stage in a kid's life , both parents have a role to play in kids life.

Things are changing now and hopefully people will get the grip that both parents must work to support the family so they can have time to attend to these kids....a very tired man will not listen to a child's school work

and that's why 70s and 80s even 90s born kids has the same story of a violent father .

vanstanzy:

WHICH OF THE HOUSES FLIES SPEWED THIS SH!7 OUT?

solbil:
As for those who are quick to say "typical nigerian mentality" well, i think you all are just a bunch of xenocentric feminist people who by chance have found yourselves abroad and now think anything nigeria is inferior! You have become so blinded by your xenocentrism feminism that your intellectual development have been seriously affected! How else can we explain your inability to suspect the simple obvious? That by nature , children are more attached to their mothers than they are to their fathers. And the one who is closer, has more influence.

I was born, raised, and went through school with feminism. I believed all of the propaganda about the idyllic new world we were creating, a world in which no one would suffer discrimination; a world in which anyone could take on any role that they wanted in life. I really believed that stuff. As well, looking around me and looking back, I must say that for Canadian and American women this dream has pretty-much been realized, at least as best it can be in an imperfect world.

The rub is that for men the quality of life has gone in the opposite direction. Now, I'm not talking about men's fortunes going downhill in the feminist sense. You know: men having been at the pinnacle of power, controlling everything, running the home, running the political world, the financial world, and pretty much every other world there was to run, and now having to share that power with women. I don't believe that bunkum any more.

After all, Fred Everyman who dragged his butt to the factory every morning and back home every evening thirty years ago is still dragging his butt around the same way thirty years later, if he's lucky enough to have a factory to which to drag it. It is true that the high-rolling, über-boss men of yore now have to share the corner office with high-rolling über-boss women, and this may upset them (I wouldn't know), but life options for the average working Joe haven't changed much in three decades.

One thing that has changed a lot for Fred Everyman is married life. There once was a time when Fred would wake up in the morning, sit down to a nutritious breakfast made for him by his wife, head off to work carrying a lunch made for him by his wife, work all day, then return home to a dinner cooked for him by his wife, in a house that he didn't have to clean, perhaps with kids that he helped raise but didn't have to tend.

What we refer to as "modern women" see this scenario as a kind of slavery. Jane Everyman was stuck at home, cooking, cleaning, and wiping runny noses. Many of today's women have sworn that they would never cook, clean, and raise children for any man, and many of them have managed to avoid these things, principally by convincing men that men ought to help out with the household chores while at the same time she goes out to earn a bit more money. This still seems like a fair trade to me, and this was why I supported feminism: not to free women from slavery, but to allow men to become more involved in their homes and their childrens' lives.

Then two things went terribly wrong. First, rather than signing up for boring but profitable work like computer programming, or dangerous but profitable work like underwater welding or garbage collection, women signed up en masse for people-contact professions that had always paid—and continue to pay—lousy wages. Second, in addition to insisting that men learn to cook, clean, and look after kids, many women decided that the best way not to be caught in the housewife / mother trap was not to learn any of this stuff, and ultimately not to do it.

What we've ended up with is something that boggles my mind: thousands of women who made career choices that stressed "easy" over "profitable," who as well know next to nothing about keeping house, complaining that they can't seem to meet the man of their dreams.

This does not surprise me. Who the hell would want them?

Don't get me wrong: love is a wonderful thing, and it's one of the biggest rushes in life to meet someone who turns you on sexually, enjoys spending time with you, and likes many of the same things that you like. However, the harsh reality is that eventually some meals must be cooked, some dishes washed, some babies changed, leaves mucked out of gutters, toilets repaired, and oil changed. This is the stuff of everyday life, and someone has to do it. Love and friendship are wonderful things, but one must also address the practical matters of living. The garbage won't take itself out.

I know far too many "modern" women who make lousy money, are hopeless in a kitchen, couldn't change a tire if their lives depended on it, get vertigo on step ladders, and don't want children. These same women think that they deserve to be married to some wonderful guy just for existing. I had a short discussion with a school teacher friend of mine in which I asked why men had to bring women flowers, but women never bring men flowers (I like flowers). Her response? "Our presence is our gift to you!" I guffawed. I haven't been invited back. Women who are of no practical use to anyone think that they deserve everlasting happiness with some dream prince because, well, they're just such great company.

Except that they're not.

Men typically don't spend a lot of time in card stores, but you should pop into one some time. It's instructive. Carlton or Hallmark, it doesn't matter. Drop in and check out the "for women only" section. I'll give you a sample: "Congratulations on your marriage. Your new life will require energy, determination, and skill.... Training a man isn't easy." Or, how about this one: "All men are scum.... Oh, for a moment there, I was feeling generous." Women—the same "modern" women I'm talking about—buy these things. They actually believe stuff like this, and have a hearty laugh over it. I know, because my cousins buy these things and send them to each other. My female friends post them on their kitchen walls.

So who, I must ask, wants to stay home and look after a house for a woman who, even if she did make good money, thinks you're a loser just because you're male? Who wants to listen to "stupid men" jokes year after year? And who, short of the most masochistic among us, would agree to both work and take care of the house only to be told by a woman who is inept at anything that could be labeled "work" that you're somehow sub-human?

Men helped open up the workplace to women when they demanded it. Men even changed the workplace to make it better than it had ever been when it was only men working. Men introduced new laws to accommodate women in the workplace. A good number of us learned to cook, and even more of us took up scrub brushes and pails of Pine-Sol to help with the cleaning. We learned to do laundry and ironing. We learned to change diapers and how warm the milk should be before baby gets it. Many of us now know more about looking after a home than many women.

After all of this, we get sneering disrespect from junior secretaries who have trouble cooking pasta. Then, when they get tired of us, they divorce us and take the kids, the house, and the car the way their grandmothers did.

If I sound depressed by this modern condition, I am. If I sound nostalgic for the Fifties, I'm not particularly. You see, my dream had always been to marry a woman who made good money. I love cooking; I love kids; I enjoy decorating although I'm not that good at it; I can take or leave cleaning, but I did it for twenty years so I could do it for sixty more without much problem; I can also take a passable crack at repairing a car engine and I can climb ladders and move heavy furniture, which is more than the fabled Fifties housewife could do. I can also, in a pinch, make good money.

Neither am I alone. I have a friend on my sports team who brings cakes and squares after every practice. I have another good friend who does prize-winning needlepoint. A lot of my male friends are single and although, as I'll freely admit, some of their places are strictly utilitarian, others would surprise you with their tasteful decor. There are still a few "Neanderthal" men out there, but there are also a lot, like me, who have grown up self-sufficient, tidy, and capable in the home.

After all of this, I find that I look around at the single women I know, and I shudder. I listen to them giggling about how stupid and useless men are, and it makes me glad that I can take care of myself. Women think that they have finally arrived at a place where they don't need men any more. They can make their own money, and modern technology makes much of men's strengths and skills obsolete. However, I have news for those women who think that this gives them a leg up on us men: many of us don't need you, either. We can cook, clean, and look after ourselves.

berem: I have been trying to ask this question over and over again.why do mothers get almost all the blame when a child displays very bad behaviour?

I know of a family friend whose 2 grown up kids are always involved in crime though one of them died as a result of cult activities few months ago.

Apart from taking care of the family financially, the man is seldom present to take care of his kids since when they were small.

He's always travelling due to the nature of his business. Their mum being a house wife has been taking care of the boys.

Now that one of them is dead, the husband and his relations are heaping the blame on the woman for not doing her responsibilities as a mother taking care of them.

Why should mothers be blamed?

jidegirl12:
@ cooger kids needs a father figure at home, in their lives most especially male kids... It's unfortunate the father has to work solely around the clock to cater for the whole family but at a certain stage in a kid's life , both parents have a role to play in kids life.

Things are changing now and hopefully people will get the grip that both parents must work to support the family so they can have time to attend to these kids....a very tired man will not listen to a child's school work
and that's why 70s and 80s even 90s born kids has the same story of a violent father .

coogar:

of course, kids need a father figure in their lives....
it's not like this man doesn't come home at all - it's just that he's often away from home but he fends for his kids......which is the most important thing here!



the responsibility fell solely on the wife since she agreed to be a housewife - the least she could do is to tend the nest and train the kids - she has no 9-5 job to distract her so how did the kids become rotten under her watch?