This morning, my kids were playing with me on the bed.
Then my wife called my daughter to come help her in the kitchen.
The following conversation took place:
Daughter: Daddy, why isn't "her brother's name" coming to join us in the kitchen? He should also learn how to cook.
Me: Yes, he should learn how to cook, but for different reasons.
D: what are the reasons, daddy?
Me: Your brother should learn how to cook so that he can survive when he's on his own as a young man or a bachelor. You should learn how to cook, so that you can survive as a young lady, and be able to cook for your husband and children.
D: But daddy, that's gender stereotyping.
Me: My head is spinning.
Me: What do you mean?
D: I mean, daddy, I must not be the only one who cooks for my husband. I can also earn more money than my husband, so he too should be cooking.
My head just do gbam!
Na so I start lecture ooo.
My wife called her again, but I had to ask her to allow her because I wanted to talk to her.
What started as a simple conversation turned into a 30 minutes lecture time.
I thought she was still very young to understand certain things but I realized this girl is always on YouTube kids watching different girly stuff. And somehow, this internet has a way to feeding them this western ideologies.
So I started from when I met her mother at the university until I married her. I told her that during our dating period, I did not give her mother any money for hair, buy her any phone, or pay any rent for her mother.
I told her that, yes, she should aspire to make her own money, and that even when she gets married and is making money, her money is not meant for her to be a provider for her husband.
I used my wife and myself as examples. I told her that when I married her mother, she was working and earning money, but she stopped working to become a stay-at-home mother and wife.
And that I pay her mother a monthly salary for the job she does.
D: Mommy never told me that you pay her salary.
Me: Yes, she didn't tell you because it's not your business. But I am telling you now so that you understand that even if you see your mother at home every day, it doesn't mean that she's not working.
That it can heppen to her when she gets married. Which is why she must be careful with the type of men she follows or the type of man she would get married to.
I told her that she should never see men and women as equals. That we have different privileges.
I now asked her if she knows what feminism is?
This girl said yes.
Omo I started another round of lecture o.
Feminism is different from femininity. I want you to discard whatever feminism is saying and be a feminine lady.
I married her because her mother is a feminine woman.
I talk tire.
This girl was just looking at me in awe.
I was actually waiting for when she would turn 15/16 before having such conversations with her, but omo, I for gok am.
Later, I had to call her mother privately to tell her that she has more work to do in terms of orientation. She said she does, but it's good that I lectured her, so she will now use it to teach and convince her more, because she always doesn't want to disappoint me, her father.
May my daughter not become the very things I teach against.
End.
Once you JAPA at age 26 and above, your aim is always to get another passport, settle your family, make money, invest and come back home.
Home may not be good now, but there is no place like home.
I have not seen anyone that wants to stay abroad after 60 years.
@jon_d_doe So men can be so weak and stupid to the extent of confronting another man instead of focusing on your woman who allow another man to sleep with here 💔
Few days to focus on my study assignment and my business, I feel like not to resume in that 9-5pm job anymore. I don't wake up by 5am and come back home very late at night. I control my time and movement.