City Desk :
Raising a child with proper care and with true parental responsibilities is sure to bring a meaningful change in a family, society and also a state, which would in turn help them break the shackles of poverty and live a life with dignity. “I expect my baby to grow up to be a responsible and caring citizen,” says a mother of three small children while talking to media at the exit gate of an English Medium School in the posh Dhanmondi area of the capital city. When asked what the parents hope, dream and expect for their unborn children, Sayeda Khaleda Khanom, a housewife, replied straightway that all the parents obviously want their children to grow up as worthy citizens to live a dignified life and help bring a sustainable social change in the country.
“The past experience of our socio-economic life speaks of the fact that the larger section of our children went through a sense of social deprivation since birth. This grew in manifold as they themselves grew up,” she said, adding, “the situation is now changing with increased school enrolment and good care at homes for the babies.”
Mrs. Rashida Salahuddin, another housewife whose only child studies at an elementary class in the same school, quite philosophically expressed her views that overall, the parents’ hopes and expectations have been overwhelmingly positive and fitted well within the available hierarchy of needs. She meant to say that both the basic physical needs in life and the children’s ability to be able to fulfill their individual potential s are particularly important.
“This qualitative exploration lays important groundwork for future analyses and insights into the changing hopes and dreams of our parents for their children overtime,” observed Mrs Salahuddin while looking at the last one decade’s tremendous development in the socio-economic life in Bangladesh.
The social scientists say the parents’ hopes and dreams are being shaped by their beliefs, morals, rules, values and ways of thinking, which are transmitted to the children through the behavior of both mothers and fathers towards their kids to help their positive growth and a shining future in the potentially important ways.
The good news is that Bangladesh made one of the highly appreciable gains this year in South Asia being ranked as the 130th best country in the world for children to grow up. The Save the Children, a global NGO working in Bangladesh, disclosed the fact while launching its End of Childhood report here recently.
Raising a child with proper care and with true parental responsibilities is sure to bring a meaningful change in a family, society and also a state, which would in turn help them break the shackles of poverty and live a life with dignity. “I expect my baby to grow up to be a responsible and caring citizen,” says a mother of three small children while talking to media at the exit gate of an English Medium School in the posh Dhanmondi area of the capital city. When asked what the parents hope, dream and expect for their unborn children, Sayeda Khaleda Khanom, a housewife, replied straightway that all the parents obviously want their children to grow up as worthy citizens to live a dignified life and help bring a sustainable social change in the country.
“The past experience of our socio-economic life speaks of the fact that the larger section of our children went through a sense of social deprivation since birth. This grew in manifold as they themselves grew up,” she said, adding, “the situation is now changing with increased school enrolment and good care at homes for the babies.”
Mrs. Rashida Salahuddin, another housewife whose only child studies at an elementary class in the same school, quite philosophically expressed her views that overall, the parents’ hopes and expectations have been overwhelmingly positive and fitted well within the available hierarchy of needs. She meant to say that both the basic physical needs in life and the children’s ability to be able to fulfill their individual potential s are particularly important.
“This qualitative exploration lays important groundwork for future analyses and insights into the changing hopes and dreams of our parents for their children overtime,” observed Mrs Salahuddin while looking at the last one decade’s tremendous development in the socio-economic life in Bangladesh.
The social scientists say the parents’ hopes and dreams are being shaped by their beliefs, morals, rules, values and ways of thinking, which are transmitted to the children through the behavior of both mothers and fathers towards their kids to help their positive growth and a shining future in the potentially important ways.
The good news is that Bangladesh made one of the highly appreciable gains this year in South Asia being ranked as the 130th best country in the world for children to grow up. The Save the Children, a global NGO working in Bangladesh, disclosed the fact while launching its End of Childhood report here recently.
