17/07/2023
ERROR IN PARENTING
A few years ago, my wife and I read on WhatsApp, as you might have read too, that eating eggs and bananas is fatal, the post cited victims of the combo.
In a panic, my wife summoned our two youngest children to sternly warn them to stay off eggs and banana combination.
In their characteristics response to superstitions, the boys said, "The post doesn't make sense (their exact words) because people eat plantain and eggs and they don't die".
Furious, we reacted, "They didn't say plantain but banana", my wife added, "Iwo yi (pointing to our last child), you are too know, o ti le deja ju ( you always dare cultural taboos). They said something killed people you are questioning us". The boy, in his usual insistence, said, "The chemical composition of banana and plantain are similar if eggs interaction with plantain doesn't kill, its interaction with banana should not kill".
I started reasoning with them, but I didn't show it because they always like to defeat somebody.
We blackmailed them that we have been in the world before them and they must concede to us and if indeed, they know anything, they should keep quiet when adults are making assertions.
I google the chemical composition of plantain and banana, and the boys were correct.
What parenting?
