In addition, there are differences between males and females in the rural society in which Ahmed lived. The female was not allowed to marry outside the extended family or kinship, and she was not encouraged to complete the public education, and she had no right to refuse to marry …show more content…
The reasons for this are many in my view. For example, if the child is healthy at this stage, there are no problems. This what we are concerned about it in that time according to my mother.
However, in the middle childhood which is between six to eight years (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017), some troubles were existed. After I had reached the age of six, which is the formal age to start engaging within the students in the first grade, some of the troubles began to appear. One of these troubles is that I do not have what is called a birth certificate and I do not know my real birth date and my father too. My father, like other parents in the countryside, does not recognize the importance of education. There was a primary school at the top of the mountain and one of kinships was the teacher at that school. He is a teacher Mohammed, who later married my sister. He asked my father why I was still without education. My father used to say that Ahmed was still young to attend school and I am a afraid to make him cut the valley to school every morning. Consequently, I was delayed in my education one year until I was seven years