If you are relocating to the West and your children are still really young, you have to really improve on your social skills with your children.
You will be moving to an environment where you literally have to ‘worship’ your children just 5 mins before walking them through their school gates.
You have to ensure they walk in with happy and smiling faces.
You have to make sure you receive their kisses and you return the cheeks-pecking favour whilst topping it up with the mouthing of ‘I love you’.
If you don’t do any of these, and they walk in with ‘long’ faces, you might probably get a call before long because someone may deep his or hand in their mouth.
I felt sorry for an oyinbo woman begging her child this morning...”you know I love you, I only told you off because I was upset...not with you, but with myself. Please give me a smile now...”. The boy said...”you will still tell me off again. Just leave me alone...”. “I said I’m sorry. Just know that I love you....”
That was the part I heard last before I walked-jogged the Hs beyond their whispers’ range.
I didn’t forget to rehearse my chores of kisses exchange and ‘I love you’ too. We had a marching order at home this morning. So I told them all off.
I asked them to look for wipes for me but I didn’t know I sat on it throughout. So they pulled long faces when they found out they had been made to run over 2 floors more than 3 times looking for the wipes!
So I toasted them and promised them little paradise indulgence after school.
Where I came from...in my time...can’t remember giving or seeking any kiss-approval to make me happy before walking to my class!
You are made somber and very sober leaving the house, and you can see long canes in teachers’ hands to welcome you to school.
Many children’s cases are like one leaving lions den to enter tigers colony.
In all, we survived. But unfortunately, we have in hands a very delicate generation that you cannot rebuke, tell off, reprimand, or discipline. We shall receive wisdom.
My conclusion:
I can’t wait to finish the afternoon round of school run today.
But I honestly applaud mothers who do this everyday....from waking the children till walking them into their classrooms. And they will still remember to do all the shopping without forgetting anything.
Yesterday, I did grocery shopping, walked to the car, opened the boot, closed the boot, then sat in the car as I didn’t want to go home yet. Thank God I waited.
A knock on my window after an hour raised my shopping bag up asking if it was mine. I looked at the contents of the bag and they were mine. She told me I left them behind the car.
I checked the boot of the car to see what I put there....only free ASDA catalogue! I just laughed and wondered how I forgot to put shopping in the car!
So well done mothers! We can try, but we cannot multitask well like you. Thank God it is Friday....we are freeeeeeeee.
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