CHILDREN OF TODAY DON'T EVEN KNOW

 


CHILDREN OF TODAY DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT IN OUR DAYS YOU COULD BE BEATEN FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

1. Crying too long after being beaten

2. Not crying after being beaten

3. Crying without being beaten

4. Standing where elders are sitting 

5. Sitting while elders are standing

6. Walking around aimlessly where elders are seated

7. Eating food prepared for visitors

8. Refusing to eat

9. Coming back home after sunset

10. Eating at the neighbour's home

11. Generally being too moody

12. Generally being too excited

13. Losing a fight with older age mate 

14. Winning a fight with your age mate 

15. Eating too slowly

16. Eating too quickly

17. Eating too much

18. Not finishing your food

19. Finishing your food and scraping your plate

20. Eating and talking 

21. Sleeping while the elders in the house have already woken up

22. Looking at the visitors while they are eating

23. Stumbling and falling when walking

24. Looking at an elder eye ball to eye ball

25. When an elder is talking to you and you blink

26. When an elder is talking to you and you stare and not blink

27. When you look at an elder through the corner of your eye

28. When your mates are playing street football and you join them 

29. When your mates are playing and you don’t join them

30. When you don't wash your dish after eating

31. When you wash your dish improperly 

32. When you almost break your dish

33. When you break your dish

34. When you bite your nails.

34.. When you don't bathπŸ›€. 

35. When you bathπŸ›€too quickly 

36. When you take too long to bathπŸ›€. 

37. When you’re beaten in school for misbehaving 

38. When a car almost knocks you down

39. When a car knocks you down and you don’t die!

40. For not answering when spoken to

41. For answering back when spoken to.

42 Beaten for going to Church or Mosque late.

43 Beaten for borrowing shoe/wears from friends.


Some of these reasons for beating a child may appear far-fetched today but they sure did happen and they were the norm that shaped the adults of today.


Kudos to African parents. We, the generation you almost killed with beating say .... 

THANK YOU

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And if you were beaten because of any 3 of the above, please gather here for" *Survival & Thanksgiving* πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

*Our culture must not die!!!*


Source. TOTEM NETWORK AFRICA

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