In the African culture, the birth of any girl child into an African home is a great blessing because the girl child is entrusted with so many responsibilities and believed to be more responsible when it comes to care.

However, they are trained with special care which makes their upbringing much different..

As a girl child, you are already shown how to handle house chores like cooking,washing,cleaning,scrubbing and other house chores.

So, it's always a joyful moment when an African woman first put to bed a girl child before the other gender.

Moreover, many believe it's a special blessing from God because that girl child is trained and groomed to take care of others.

I was born into a family of 9 with seven children..As a girl child, I was loaded with so much responsibilities that most times I found it difficult to even associate with other. I became a second mother to my siblings.I had to take care of myself and my siblings in the absence of my mother who was pursuing a course at the University of Nigeria Nsukka..

However, that upbringing made me stronger and wiser. I was taught how to do most house chores meant for adults. I cooked and cleaned even as a child..Now, among the seven children our parents had, there is another girl child which made us two girls and the remaining 5 were boys.

But as the first, I was trained differently,though my younger was a kind of helping hand.

However, in the African culture,a girl child is supposed to be educated about certain things as she grows, most especially her body as a child.A girl child needs to know how to protect her body as a child..

There are certain things I didn't know when I was growing up even as a teen,I would so much want to correct in the life of my daughter.

Sex education is very important and vital in the life of every girl child. It is important that a girl child should know when to say NO to certain approaches both from her gender and the male gender.

As a child, my growth was rapid and my menstrual flow started at the age of thirteen.I can still remember vividly my expression.I was shocked and wondered why blood was coming out from my private part, I was checking if I had an injury, but saw none.I was even scared of telling anyone, I ran out of the rest room in tears looking for something to clean up myself.I was even scared of telling anyone.

Fortunately, my mum was actually home on holidays.When I cleaned up myself severally and the blood kept dropping,I started crying..I cried silently. I was thinking of the next thing to do when my mum saw me and started asking questions,I explained in fear and she started laughing. Her laughter made me more confused.Then she started educating me on menstrual flow and cycle but one of the most scariest thing she said to me was, "as you are seeing this, don't allow any male child touch you, when you see any male child coming towards you, run!" Now, that made me so scared. I was given the proper education on this as a child,so I didn't really understand why the flow should even occur.

However, my growth continued to a teen.This stage is another stage in a girl child that needs proper nurture,care and patience