Like Father, Like Daughter
NCERT Looking Around, Class 5, Chapter 21 asks why children resemble parents in face or voice yet differ in dreams and talents. Through families where daughters drive buses, sons cook, mothers fly planes, and fathers stitch clothes, it shows looks may be inherited while skills grow with interest and practice. The chapter questions fixed ideas about work for boys and work for girls, sharing examples of women scientists and men nurses. It closes by urging every child to choose any honest career and to respect all work equally.
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