Don’t put children in a bubble

Well, this is interesting. And, I’m in two minds about it. I am the father of two wonderful girls and a crazy wife. Should there be any harm put towards them, I can’t even imagine my thinking at that point. But, of course, I am a baba [father] and I know that at some point, my girls will be subjected to something.

When I say ‘something’, my hope is that we are teaching them to be strong enough to say ‘no’, to say, “I am not comfortable”, to say, “I am going to someone else”. I get the #MeToo movement. I completely agree and support issues against the trauma that has been brought up.

We have an agreement that whatever the girls want to do, we will support them. If it is basketball or football – which my oldest has done and was the only girl on the team – we support it. If they want to play with trucks and cars instead of dolls, no problem. But, when you segregate, you do something. For adults, it’s like a small bubble. For a child, that bubble becomes bigger. That bubble becomes a fundamental part of how they learn their social dynamics. From Mr Mustafa Hasan

Stay-at-home father living in Dubai