Word: dovey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lindiwe Dovey '01 grew up knowing exactly how her parents thought of her. "Lindiwe is a Zulu names that means `the one we waited for,'" she says. Her parents Ken and Teresa Dovey waited nine years after their marriage to have children in order to ensure that their relationship was strong and stable, and this stability within the family has helped the Doveys cope with a rapidly changing South African landscape...
...Lindi grew up in South Africa and Australia. "My dad is an academic, but is more of an action-academic since he combines community work and action with academia," Lindi says. "He began an institution to promote nonracial relationships--this was all going on during apartheid." Though the Doveys have deep roots in South Africa, subtle pressures from the apartheid regime eventually prompted her parents to move to Australia when she was three. From then on, Lindi's family shuttled back and forth between the two countries about every two years, drawn back by her parents' desire to help South...
...Doveys knew that their daughter could adapt to a real world situation because she had no illusions about the difficulties of life. Ken Dovey says, "She was never sheltered from the national context--poverty, conflict and the realities of everyday time. I had a sense that no problem would...
...Even when Lindi was a toddler, she revealed a natural ability to deal with changes in life. Teresa Dovey explains, "When Lindi was almost two and we were expecting our second child, I was concerned about how Lindi would react to having her place at the center of things usurped by a new sibling. I thought it might help if she had a new doll to play with when we brought a new baby home...and I imagined she would enjoy dressing the doll while I was dressing the baby. When I came back from the maternity hospital with...
...Doveys always encouraged communication within the family--be it nonverbal, conversational or over e-mail. Lindi's parents take their roles very seriously and can clearly articulate their philosophy of raising children, a philosophy that reflects an optimism about human potential. "If you bring someone into the world, you have a responsibility to make sure she is a happy person, that she has a sense of joy as well as being well-developed socially and intellectually," Ken Dovey says. "Some parents use other explanations as a cop out. In the end, parents have a huge influence on their children...