14/04/2026
Wahala 🤣
So my son’s friends actually wrote him a letter because he didn’t come outside to play with them today 😁😁.
I had sent him to get something for me from a nearby store.
Since he wasn’t going far, he left the gate open, only to come back and met the gate locked with a LETTER waiting for him 🤣🤣.
Normally, they do play together inside the compound most days
But I’ve observed something…
Any day their mum or dad is at home, these children will NEVER step outside to come and play with my son.
My boy will even sit in front of their house, where they usually meet, waiting for hours yet none of them will come out.
Sometimes, they’ll even be talking to him from their balcony upstairs while my son stands downstairs, stretching his neck under the sun just to communicate with them but they still won’t come out 😩.
My son has no siblings or close playmates at home. Apart from school, it’s just him and I.
So I understand why he’s always eager to go out and find children to play with, because I can’t always fill that gap.
But it kept happening him going there, waiting, and being ignored.
Sometimes I'll ask my boy if his friends traveled this one i havent been seeing them around, not knowing their mom or dad is at home reason they're not stepping outside.
One day, I got really upset and told him to stop going there to look for them when they wouldn’t even come out to play,It was honestly becoming embærrassing and me I wouldn't want that pattern of telling my child not to socialise with this and that person, its not my thing despite knowing how to place value on one's self.
As a parent, if my child’s friends come around, I won’t ignore them or make it look like they’re not welcome.
Nobody big pass anybody 💯.
What even made it more obvious is that these same children will only come out to play with my son when their parents are not at home.
Now this morning around 10am, my boy was inside reading for his upcoming JSSC exams, when these children came to my window, whispering, shouting and calling him to come outside 😄.
He ignored them.
I just smiled, seeing theyve been calling for so long 😊.
Then I asked him if that’s how he usually goes to their window to call them out.
He said no that he can’t even try it, especially when he knows their mum is home and won’t allow them come out.
Na so these children carry my matter write letter 🤣🤣 say I say its not compulsory for val to come out, Me ke?
My son brought the letter to me. I read it and just burst out laughing, they needed his phone to play games with it, which he always gives them wxcept for today na him wahala come out like this 🤣🤣
You can imagine? Involving me.
Now my boy says he wants to reply them with his own letter 😄 I told him to ignore them.
But I sha know children’s friendship… they’ll settle it themselves. At the end of the day, they’ll realize how important they are to each other.💯😆
I'm short of words infact😃
