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Everytime a girl learnt the story of Cinderella she gets to know that life is beautiful after getting your prince charming. He is the man of your dreams. These stories tells that life has only happy moments after marrying to you prince charming and you will become the Cindrella of today’s world.
But it’s high time we introduced them to the real world of women who can deal with their problems by themselves rather than waiting for a man to save them. How about telling your children the stories of Jhansi ki Rani, Mother Teresa, Kalpana Chawla and other brave women? Parent’s should raise their daughter’s smart and brave. Society needs to tell them that they had not born just for marriage. They are not born to get married and then have a baby. It should be stopped and they need to be more focused towards their goals, desires and wishes. They should be independent enough to do everything alone by themselves. By telling the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel we are telling them there will be their prince charming who is going to save her in future in the difficult situation. We should stop telling them these situations. Parent’s should make their kids watch movies like Mardaani and Pink.
The brave and real stories of the strong women will help your daughter fight challenges in life and come out as a winner. To raise smart, bold and confident girls who don’t run away when they see challenges we need to make it known to them that marriage is not the beginning and end of their life. There’s a whole lot more they have to look forward to.