“You know they say you mek you children but you ain’t mek they mind? Well that is what happening with me. Sometimes I does want to know if me children just hate me or something. Is like everything I ask them to do is a problem,” she said, the frustration evident on her face.
“Sometimes I does want beat them but then I does just feel tired thinking about it, so I just end up talking and talking but them not listening,” she added.
A single parent for the past three years, this mother works six days a week from early in the morning to early afternoon, but difficulty with transportation means that she sometimes gets home just before nightfall or later. Her one day off from work is spent ensuring that household chores are completed. Apart from going to church, she does not have the time or finances to spend time with the children outside of the home. They may visit a relative from time to time but that is far as it goes.
