Angelia Vernon Menchan

Angelia Vernon Menchan is an author, publisher and public speaker who owns two publishing companies, MAMM Productions and Honorable Menchan Media. Mrs. Menchan is also a Budget Officer and former Job Corps Counselor. To date she has published twenty-three books of her own work, both fiction and non-fiction and more than eighty ebook novellas on amazon.com. You can access her bibliography on www.amazon.com search words: Angelia Vernon Menchan




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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Teach 'Em What?

I have epiphanies at the most amazing times,
Yesterday I was standing at the sink washing my hands and a sister walked in with her little girl, and that child was as shiny faced and lovely as sunshine…
Mama was explaining to her child what not to touch and all those age old lessons our mothers taught us,
You all know the ones,
Don’t sit on the toilet seat in public bathrooms,
Don’t drink behind people,
Wipe off the can before you sip from it, etc.
Good lessons all…
But what played in my mind was that one day this girl was going to be a teenager,
A young adult and she was going to date,
And I wondered if that same mother who had taken the time to dress her up so pretty,
Or cared as much as she obviously did by telling her basic hygienic principles,
Would she take the time to tell that girl how to protect herself from sexually transmitted disease…how to say no to activities that weren’t good for her…how to demand love, honor and respect…
In this world where STD rates are rising and women, particularly women of color are being affected by HIV at alarming rates, those women who teach their daughters not to sit on the toilet seat had better be telling them how to be safe,
How to protect themselves, how to stay alive, how to have expectations of being honored,
Respected and loved…
And that they have the absolute right to refuse to do anything under the sun, that they do Not wish to do or that they know is inherently wrong for them…
It is our responsibility along with all the other wisdom we past on,
To teach our young sisters….
How to LIVE….

Love and Blessings,
angelia

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes it is our responsibility! My best friend and I were talking about this very topic yesterday.

Great blog

Love u

G-Nice

Angelia Vernon Menchan said...

Thanks G-Nice...

LOVE YOU MORE!

mama deep

Gwyneth Bolton said...

Tell it, Mama Deep! Tell it! This is one to share with all our sisters raising young women. In fact it would be nice if we all took the responsibility to help the next pass on this knowledge to all the young women in our lives. We have to!

Gwyneth

Angelia Vernon Menchan said...

Lady Gwyneth,
I had to tell it...cause what good is knowing and not telling...

Smooches!
angelia

Jennifer C. said...

I told my daughter when she was eight. That was the first time, and we will continue to have these discussions until she is married or God tells me to take my last breath, which ever comes first. But all the lessons I was not taught as a child with an inquisitive mind, I'm covering with my children before the situation arrives. Teach the lessons before the wrong cards are dealt.

Angelia Vernon Menchan said...

That's right Jen,
Tell them young and continue to tell them, I didnt have daughters but I reinforced to my sons their responsibilities and always reminded them to treat women the way they wanted ME treated...

smooches!!
mama deep