29/07/2025
🎭 Parenting No Be Beans!
You see this parenting thing? Nobody warn me say e go be like this o!
I used to think being a good mum na just to:
✅ Cook food
✅ Buy school uniform
✅ Shout “Will you stop that nonsense before I knock sense into your head!”
But one day, my twins: Emmanuel and Emmanuella (aka my small but mighty wahala partners) taught me serious parenting lesson that no dey inside antenatal booklet.
So that evening, Emmanuel walked up to me and said,
“Mummy, I’m not talking to Emmanuella again.”
I say, “Ah-ah, what happened?”
He said, “She didn’t say thank you for the sweet I gave her yesterday, so today I didn’t give her any.”
Small me wanted to say, “Two of you better get out from my front!”
But Spirit of Calm caught me by the wrapper.
I took a deep breath, sat both of them down like village council, and we started family meeting.
I asked:
🗣️ “Did you feel hurt?”
👧🏽 Emmanuella said yes.
🧒🏽 Emmanuel said he was “just angry small.”
Then we talked about saying sorry, using words, and not using cold war and eye power to solve problems.
That night ehn, I sat on my bed and just smiled.
Parenting no be gra-gra. It’s about connecting, not commanding.
We wey dem raise with, “If I slap you, your ancestors go feel it,”
let’s try another way.
Let’s raise children who can express, not suppress.
Who feel safe to cry, talk, love… and even quarrel the right way.
Now I dey try.
Sometimes I still shout small 😅
But I’m learning every day to be the kind of parent my children can talk to and not run from.
If you’re in this parenting journey too and you’ve had your own small parenting epiphany, drop a “💛” in the comments.
Tag one mama or papa that needs to hear this truth.