Renowned comedienne Anita Asuoha, also known as Real Warri Pikin, has expressed her belief that many adults from her generation endured traumatic childhood experiences during their upbringing.
Real Warri Pikin emphasized that she does not endorse contemporary parents raising their children in the same manner that her own generation was raised.
In a widely circulated video titled “Pls let’s wake up as parents,” the comedienne shared her thoughts on parenting and warned that modern parents would ultimately regret replicating the parenting styles prevalent during her generation.
“We cannot afford to raise our kids like our parents did. A lot of us had traumatizing childhood. We’re still broken, were still hurt; not healed. And subconsciously or consciously, we’re raising our kids like our parents.
“There’s no psychological safety around the space that they live in. You’re not a safe place for them to ask questions or talk to. A lot of things are happening in your house, to them.
“And in the next 26 or 30 years, they’ll tell you. And you’ll say, ‘Had I known’.
“Only up naim your eye dey. Na only to beat pikin you know. Only rough love you know. Emotionally, you’re unavailable.
“The only thing they have towards you is fear. That’s very wrong parenting.”
Furthermore, according to information obtained from The Nation, the female comedian mentioned in a separate social media post expressed
“If the only style of parenting you knw is to discipline yours kids, then you are heading for the rocks…
“You have to be a safe place and also be emotionally available for them….
Children are going truuuuu a lot…? Parents wake up!
“We can’t parents our kids the way our parents did Because all our parents knew was tough love. Pls let’s break the circle.”
