Top Lies Nigerian Parents Tell Their Children

Top Lies Nigerian Parents Tell Their Children

Of course, being a parent is not child's play, especially a Nigerian one. It comes with a lot of responsibilities.

One of the responsibilities of being a parent is to make sure your children don't learn how to tell lies. But, hmm... the lies they tell eh! Some parents would then call it 'necessary lies'.

Check them out:

1. Because they want their children to be first in class they would say: When I was in school I always came first. They will now add: 'Does the person that took the first position have two heads?


2. If you swallow fruit seeds, it would grow inside you. So, human beings now have soil inside them?


3. Maybe out of ignorance or because they wanted to be selfish with the juice, they would say: 'if you drink coconut water, it would make you dull'. But we see them drinking it.


4. Even when they are short, and against all genetic realities, they would say: 'If you eat beans, you will grow tall'. Am still wondering if that is said to make the children eat the beans or there's something else behind that.


5. When children see their mummy's tummy and ask their dads, the dads would say: 'Mummy's tummy grew from overfeeding.


6. If as a young adult or an adult you did not hear, 'lend me your savings, I would refund it', then you must have grown up in China. They would tell you that, if you then ask later, you would hear, 'Oya give me all the money I have been spending on you since I gave birth to you'. Crying won't help anything.


7. In order to extract the truth from you, they would say, 'Tell me the truth, I would not beat you'. You know the rest.


8. Now... you have decided to go out with your parents or your family members that visited, and it is time to go. One article would be intentionally forgotten, then they would say, 'go and wear it'. The rest is history.


9. Apart from telling lies, they would use you to tell lies - 'go and tell the person at the door that I am not at home'.


10. Because they are either afraid to educate their children on sex matters, they would tell lies that would move even a baby yet unborn - 'If you play with boys, you would get pregnant'. Chai! There is God.

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