Mother: (With anxiety) ah… ha… look at these woods… it is wet… it is not breaking… it won’t burn easily… ah… ha… this year it was better to purchased coal instead of wood… but its burning is difficult… I cannot break the woods… ah… ha… I need to turn on the heater because it is getting late… (Calling) Latifa… Latifa daughter…
Latifa: (From far) yes mummy… what are you saying?
Mother: (Calling) hurry up go to the grocery shop and bring some vegetable… we have guest for dinner… your father’s cousin is coming along with his wife… hurry up… I am going to turn on the heater… cook for the dinner…
Latifa: (Replying) I am not going mummy… I am watching the drama… you go please… I will turn on the heater…
Mother: (With anger) you are a bad girl… (Crying) Latifa I am telling you… indiscipline girl… stand up and hurry….
Latifa: (Calling) Mummy… are you letting me to watch the drama or not? How much you are saying… I don’t care… I am not bringing… they are your guests not mine…
Mother: (With Sadness) this girl is not obeying at all… I don’t remember that I have told her something to do and she has not replied me with No… uff God… too much struggles to grown her… and now she is not obeying… (Calling) at night when your fathers come then I will see with you…
Latifa: (With laugh) what can he do? Nothing… he will be shouting a bit and that is it…
Mother: (With anger) should I stand… I turn on the heater… cook for the dinner… and then go to the supermarket… this naughty is not obeying…
(Whistle sound of Pressure Cooker)
Mother: (With anxiety) I think the meat is cooked… the rice would also be ready… let me make some chips… I need to wash the vegetables… then all my work would be done…
Latifa: (With Demur) mummy… what you have cooked for the dinner?… I am too hungry… I think you prepared Qabli… it is clear from the smell…
Mother: (With anxiety) yes dear… it is Qabli… you come and clean the vegetable I will make the chips… come that now your father will arrive… there is also no tea available…
(Coughing sound of father and opening of the gate)
Latifa: (With anger) I don’t care… you are always trying to do things on me… my father arrived… hello father… hope you are not tired…
Mother: (With kindness) hello… hope you are not tired… are you ok?… welcome… come that your daughter made me mad…
Father: (With anxiety) hello to you… what is the problem… what have she done again?…
Latifa: (With Demur) nothing father… my mummy is always doing her tasks on me…
Mother: (With anxiety) she is not obeying me at all… she is telling you lie… she is not studying… she is not helping me… she is always disobeying me… I am fed up with her…
Father: (With anger) don’t you shy?… you are not a child to not understand… if I beat you; it is bad… shame on you… you are well grown… you will make your mother sad…
Latifa: (With anger) I am doing well… I don’t care… (Knocking sound of the door)
Father: (With anger) impolite girl… it is all your sin with steerage of such a child… don’t grumble…
Mother: (Joyfully) very welcome brother Qaseem… you also welcome Zeenat Jan… please have some tea…
Qaseem: (Happily) hope you be ok sister-in-law… we bother you…
Zeenat: (With joy) Where is Latifa?… since we are here she is appearing…
Mother: She is at home… but she is sad…
Father: (With anger) this girl made me crazy… she is not obeying at all… it is all the sin of her mother… she has not taken care of her very well… hundreds of times I asked her to be careful about your daughter but…
Qaseem: (With kindness) but the steerage of the child is not only the duty of the mothers… father has also responsibility in this regard…
Father: (Laughing) Qaseem brother… what are you saying… the man has no time… since mornings he is busy with the job… he cannot pay attention to the steerage of the children…
Zeenat: (With kindness) but the women has also a lot of work… the activities of home is not ending… in the steerage of children both mothers and fathers should participate… because it is the responsibility of both…
Mother: This is totally right Zeenat Jan… I am taking care of Latifa… but it is better that sometimes her father advises her… talk to her… love her…
Qaseem: (While drinking tea) this is the right way
Message of Drama: The steerage of children is not only the duty of mother; mother and father both have responsibility against the steerage and future of their children and they should cooperate with each other in this regard.
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