Kooky and Moody are two two brothers who live in my building, Kooky is almost 20 years old while Moody is almost 8 years old. Kooky used to be a spoilt brat. I have to say that it was his mother (who I am actually writing this post about) who spoilt him; she, like many careless mothers, did not teach him discipline and allowed him to do whatever he wanted. Ten years ago I usually heard such a conversation between Kooky and his mom.
Mom (standing in the balcony): Koooookyyyyyyyyyy
Kooky: aywa ya mama (yes mom)
Mom: 2etla3a ba2a el sa3a (come back home its late).....(usually after 11 PM)
Kooky: bla bla bla (asking her to stay with his friends for a while)
Mom: ba2olk 2etla3 (I said come back home)
They kept arguing for a while, till Kooky was forced to return home. Of course Koky was careless at school, he did not do his homework and sometimes failed to pass his final exams (beygeeb mala7e2), so he had to study during the summer vacation in order to take the exams once more. Sometimes the mother asked me to give Kooky some help with his studies, in order to get prepared for the second exams. Kooky used to come to my plcae with his books and I started to explain some English and Mathematics for him. I have to admit that the kid almost knew nothing about the lessons I started to explain, as if he did not go to school for the whole year. I wanted to help the kid and thought that if I gave him some help he might show any progress. After each visit, I gave Kooky some homework and told him I will review the homework next time.
One day kooky's mother called my mom to thank her for helping Kooky with his lessons and she told her and the call went as follows:
Kooky's mom: Kooky beye3mel wageb el Math (Kooky is doing his Math homework now)
My mom: tayeb kowayess, wel masa2el sahla 3aleih we 3aref ye7elaha?(And how is it going?)
kooky's mom: aho masek el calculator we 3amal ye7seb (He is using the calculator to solve them)
After the call with Kooky's mother, my mom told me that the kid used the calculator to do his homework which really surprised me. How could a mother do this? How could she allow a 10 yeras old kid to use the calculator to solve his math homework? Didn't she realize that she was following a wrong strategy with him so that he failed his exams? Didn't she learn the lesson? Did she eralize that she was spoiling the kid? I kept asking myself such questions and found no answer to any of them.I really can't remeber what happened next; if I blamed Kooky for using the calculator or what. All I can remember that Kooky stopped visting my place shortly after that.
Years passed and Kooky showed kept struggling with his lessons, in high school he did not get good grades so he was not able to go to college and he ended up working in a factory that belongs to his uncle.
A few days ago I heard the following conversation between Kooky's mother and Moody, Kooky's younger brother at 1 AM:
Mom (standing in the balcony): Moooodyyyyyyyyyy
Moody: aywa ya mama (yes mom)
Mom: 2etla3a ba2a el sa3a (come back home its late)
Moody: bla bla bla (asking her to stay with his friends for a while)
Mom: ba2olk 2etla3 (I said come back home)
"Oh my God, not again", this is all I could say. It seems that the woman is repeating the same story all over again. This woman's attitude made me ask myself this question:
If having an abortion is considered a sin in many religions and is forbidden by many countries, what about having children ,not bringing them up properly and spoiling them so that they become murderers, drug dealres, rapists or simlpy losers that don't do any good to anyone?
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6 comments:
i am sure there is wisdom behind incompetent parents having kids... and i am also more sure that having kids and not caring enough to bring them up is a bigger sin than abortion... but that's just me
insomaniac,this makes two of us, I believe that having kids and not taking good care of them is a bigger sin than abortion. But I doubt that any of such careless parents is aware of doing such a sin.
insomaniac, I forgot to welcome you on my blog (2al ya3ny men kotr el visitors :)).
loool ur so cute.... i feel welcomed anyways :)
thanks for checking mine :)
yalla post some more!
insomaniac, although I have many things on my head to write about, I feel too depressed to post anything right now. But I can provide u with a "coming soon" list:
- An interesting convo ...Part1
- An interesting convo...Part2
- The white coat adventure
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