Nigerians React as Toke Makinwa Says many Parents can not Express Affection because They were Raised Harshly
- Media personality, Toke Makinwa has got people talking on social media about parents and the show of affection
- The entrepreneur said that many parents can not normalise saying that they love their kids
- Makinwa also said that a lot of parents think that the way they were raised is a life lesson
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Popular media personality and entrepreneur, Toke Makinwa has taken to social media to talk about why many parents can not tell their kids how much they are loved.
According to her tweet, she said that even when some parents are told that they are loved, the most they do is thank the child that said it.
Source: Instagram
Explaining further, the entrepreneur stated that most parents were raised in harsh and worse conditions which they have processed into life lessons.
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She finished off by saying that such parents raised this generation the only way they know how to.
She wrote:
"So many parents couldn’t normalize saying “I love you” to their kids. Even when told that they were loved, their response often times was “thank you”. a lot of our parents were raised worse and thought those harsh conditions were lessons and they raised us only how they knew."
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Check out the tweet below:
Tome's tweet got people talking with quite a number of them sharing experiences with their parents.
Read some comments below:
@Ola_kitangram:
"Aswr Greeting my dad Good morning sef, his response is always: hmmm."
@bennie_ag:
"My dad will reply with “God bless you all."
@JoyOsimahon:
"You speak sense ma. The day my dad said he loves me, I was mute. God help me. it's hard to know when someone loves you."
@mizz_estherr:
"I won't blame them, cos that's how their own parents raised them. So, no love and they didn't know about that, that's why it's so hard for most African parents to apologise or say " I love u too " unlike the western countries. We need to teach them more of that."
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Legit.ng previously reported that Toke Makinwa took to her Instastory channel with videos showing the moment the COVID-19 vaccine was administered on her.
The reality star also shared another clip showing the moment one of her staff members identified as Ms Dunni got the vaccine.
However, the case was entirely different with a second staff identified as Mr Rasheed. The man put up a dramatic display as he was given a shot of the vaccine.
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