Celebrating World Mother's Day in Uganda, anything to do with Miseducation?
Monday, 14 May 2018, 14:42
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Edited by Tabitha Naisiko, Wednesday, 30 Oct 2019, 14:55
Yesterday, we were bombarded with call to celebrate world mother's day. The calls were filled allover our print, TV, Radio and social media. Indeed, it was also colored with a lot of consumerism. Many concerts were presented, songs sung all about mothers. At the age of 45, this is the 4th year am hearing about mothers day. Yet I have a lovely mother who right now, as retired senior nurse is my employee at St. Joseph Health Centre Nakabango and She is also my Landlord in the house I stay. We are see each other often. So when I wake up in the morning to learn of Happy mothers day? I wonder since when did we in Uganda start these celebrations! Are they genuine or a strategy for consumerist to make some money.
Later, on reflecting, i remembered, I was never in a boarding school at my early age. I came from home to school. The boarding schools disconnect families, kill attachments but also deny learners chance to appreciate culture, environment and work with it. This type of education would justify such celebrations of world mother's day, world breastfeeding day, world environmental day and world fathers' day. We who grew and studied in day schools, it is a given that Mummy and Daddy are part of daily routines at supper together, we know every woman breastfeeds her baby. Even in public like church, it is normal for an African mother to breast feed, after all, at times that is the only option she has. I cannot believe now that a budget is set to celebrate usual things! World environment day when we live in the environment; use its resources/biodiversity for spiritual, medicinal, food, fuel, leisure; all of which are part of survival and mothers are at the centre. They nature and nurture us in the environment. May be rather than wasting resources and time to celebrate the obvious, we should start teaching all these the boarding schools.
Celebrating World Mother's Day in Uganda, anything to do with Miseducation?
Yesterday, we were bombarded with call to celebrate world mother's day. The calls were filled allover our print, TV, Radio and social media. Indeed, it was also colored with a lot of consumerism. Many concerts were presented, songs sung all about mothers. At the age of 45, this is the 4th year am hearing about mothers day. Yet I have a lovely mother who right now, as retired senior nurse is my employee at St. Joseph Health Centre Nakabango and She is also my Landlord in the house I stay. We are see each other often. So when I wake up in the morning to learn of Happy mothers day? I wonder since when did we in Uganda start these celebrations! Are they genuine or a strategy for consumerist to make some money.
Later, on reflecting, i remembered, I was never in a boarding school at my early age. I came from home to school. The boarding schools disconnect families, kill attachments but also deny learners chance to appreciate culture, environment and work with it. This type of education would justify such celebrations of world mother's day, world breastfeeding day, world environmental day and world fathers' day. We who grew and studied in day schools, it is a given that Mummy and Daddy are part of daily routines at supper together, we know every woman breastfeeds her baby. Even in public like church, it is normal for an African mother to breast feed, after all, at times that is the only option she has. I cannot believe now that a budget is set to celebrate usual things! World environment day when we live in the environment; use its resources/biodiversity for spiritual, medicinal, food, fuel, leisure; all of which are part of survival and mothers are at the centre. They nature and nurture us in the environment. May be rather than wasting resources and time to celebrate the obvious, we should start teaching all these the boarding schools.