By Dr. Laila Risgallah Wahba | Project Leader
Working women rarely have time to spend quality time with their kids.
We hear this a lot when we train kids and teenagers.
Not Guilty orchestrated a unique event, 'From Storm to Peace ', specifically for working mothers and their teenage daughters. This was a rare opportunity for twelve working women to come together with their daughters.
Not Guilty designed a workshop where the mothers would get together and write on a board the answer to "If I were my daughter, I would.."
The daughters, on the other hand, had a board with the following: "If I were my mother, I would..."
After that, we started discussing the answers.
The workshop was an emotional journey filled with tears, misconceptions, apologies, and moments of realization. Many expressed, 'I never realized you needed this.'
Simple things like being there when I wake up to go to school, or I wish you would say you are sorry when you are wrong, were some of the things the daughters expressed.
The realization of the need for conversation and communication was very obvious to both mothers and daughters.
Not Guilty cares about working mother, not only about abuse and bullying but also about taking care of themselves and their families.
The women enjoyed this so much and said that for the first time in a long time, they had a real conversation with their daughters. They were able to express their feelings without losing their temper and listened to each other's perspectives, fostering a deeper understanding and connection.
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