It was an exciting news to wake up on the 16th of May, 2020 to realize that a day is actually dedicated to the Boy Child. I remember growing up, I questioned why we only celebrated Women’s, Men’s, Children’s, Father’s and Mother’s days (on a lighter note, we celebrate the latter like 5 times in a year!- Haha, I am not tired of celebrating my parents!) and we never have days dedicated to Boys and Girls, to Brothers and Sisters, to Grandma’s and Grandpas. Seems like some other people had same thought lines and have seen to ensure we celebrate these other categories; so you see the reason for my excitement.

International Boys Day is about dedicating May 16 to focus on boys and their wellbeing. This includes the things they need in order to be happy, healthy and valued in their family and community.-

http://www.internationalboysday.org

The vision is clear and profound and I have given myself to the vision to ensure that boys, the future men have a voice, focus on their well being, work with them to find what makes them happy to ensure they are healthy and of value to their families and communities at large.

It’s no doubt that boys are seen as strong and thick skinned, less expressive, and other stereotypes used to describe the male specie. Most times they are seen as Male before they are seen as humans who have feelings and blood running their veins, the society and the world at large expects so much from them that they have to live up to expectation.

Boys are thought to “Man up”, you hear words like “be a Man” when a boy tries to express themselves in tears, you hear “common!- you are a man!”, Boys are not thought to be emotional, to be expressive and be open. This has led to a number of suicides, societal degradation and broken marriages… I will explain.

It is worthy to note that boys of today are the men of tomorrow, and these men will raise boys of the next generation- see the ripple effect?- These men will some day be the husbands and fathers!

Daily habits form our character, it is easier to mould the boys than to reform the Men.

It is cool for boys to be emotional, Boys and Men can also be expressive of their feelings by crying, crying does not make you less of a man, Boys and Men are first human before they are male species, kindly cut us some slack and see how better the world will be… It starts with you!