What comes to your mind when you hear “Nigerian parents”? For me, I think of drama, protectiveness, exaggerations and funny reactions to situations.
Nigerian parents are funny to be honest, they know how to get on your nerves knowing that you can’t do anything about it or what do you want to do, talk back? Ah, you must be a brave one to be able to talk back at Nigerian parents, if they don’t use slippers to hit you then God has saved you. There are lots of funny but annoying things that Nigerian parents do that will make you think of disappearing.
They always blame everything on your phone:
Nigerian parents always connect your problems with phone, they automatically believe that whatever is wrong with you has to do with the usage of your phone but they always use their phone too for Facebook but who is going to tell them that their usage of phone is connected to whatever is wrong with them, before you tell them, hope you have found another house.
“Perfect Past”:
Nigerian parents have awards for this one, their past stories are always so perfect, according to them they have never done anything bad and all their life they carried first position in class and they haven’t even got a B grading before, it’s always As for them. Even the mothers never talked to men and fathers never talked to any woman. Dad and mum, how did both of you meet then?
Explanation is unacceptable:
Your parents are talking and you want to explain? No, don’t do that or do you want to beat them with your mouth? If you talk back to a Nigerian parent you have allegedly beat them up with, please don’t, just agree with them so that you will find peace.
Boys:
This one’s for the girls, any boy you are seen with is automatically going to get you pregnant. You see, they don’t trust boys, especially the fathers, they’ve experienced that youthful lifestyle and they know what boys are capable of so they always get very protective when they see their daughters with boys.
Public embarrassment:
Who is going to help us ask our Nigerian parents why they do this? They can embarrass you in front of their whole friends and even your friends too without any pause, “your friend eats ten slices of bread everyday” but come to think of it, who eats ten slices of bread, don’t you fear God.
They ask you to leave your room door open:
Please ma and sir, what do you want from me? They get really uncomfortable when you are in your room and it’s closed so it’s either they ask you to open the door or they come in every second to ask for things they know they don’t need.
Nigerian parents are the best to be honest, even though they frustrate us sometimes, they are still the best to me because in everything they do they put us first and they always want to bring us up the right way and instil a responsible lifestyle in us.
Jane Frances.
