Popular comedienne, Anita Asuoha aka Real Warri Pikin has shared her views on parenting.
She said it would be very regrettable to raise kids while contemporary parents were raised.
She argued the contemporary parents were subjected to traumatising childhood, surrounded by ‘tough love’ which ended up scarring many of them in the process and consciously or otherwise, they find themselves replicating same parenting style for their kids.
The self-styled ‘African queen of standup comedy’ explained if things continued that way, many parents would regret their actions in two to three decades time when their adult children eventually recounts their growing up experiences.
In a video titled: ‘Pls let’s wake up as parents’, Realwarripikin said: “We cannot afford to raise our kids like our parents did. A lot of us had traumatising childhood. We’re still broken, were still hurt; not healed. And subconsciously or consciously, we’re raising our kids like our parents.
“There’s no psychological safety around the space that they live in. You’re not a safe place for them to ask questions or talk to. A lot of things are happening in your house, to them.
“And in the next 26 or 30 years, they’ll tell you. And you’ll say, ‘Had I known’.
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“Only up naim your eye dey. Na only to beat pikin you know. Only rough love you know. Emotionally, you’re unavailable.
“The only thing they have towards you is fear. That’s very wrong parenting.”
In another post, the mother of two plus one stressed the need for parents to be emotionally available for their kids and totally discard the ‘tough love and disciplinary style’ of parenting handed down to them by their own parents.
She added: “If the only style of parenting you knw is to discipline yours kids, then you are heading for the rocks…
“You have to be a safe place and also be emotionally available for them….
“Children are going truuuuu a lot…? Parents wake up!
“We can’t parents our kids the way our parents did Because all our parents knew was tough love. Pls let’s break the circle.”