Life of an African teenager

Life as a teenager

It all started from our infant till when we became a teenager but however I will be starting from our infant, so come with me as we go into the life of an African child.

From infant we stayed with our parents as we grow up, they try to imbibe in us the love and peace in the society. This is why most children outside our nation love themselves as they grow up but here in Nigeria my country the hatred begins as they grow up among themselves. Nevertheless parents have a big role to play in our life's apart from the love and peace they are supposed to show us from childhood, our parents guide and guard us through everything we try to do, they show us the right and wrong path and tell us which one we should tread on which is believed to be the right path. When we start growing up into a child, we start trying to make decisions by ourselves but because we were still kids they would tell us that some decisions of ours is wrong which till today it has changed most perspective till we are of age.

When we start growing up into becoming young teenagers, now you want to make decisions all by yourself as a teenager but as an African or better still I should say as a Nigerian, you are still not old enough because to make decisions all by yourself, you will be most likely told that until you get into an higher institution or in some parts of the country they would tell you that until you get married you can't make decisions all by yourself, their believe is that until you get married and give birth your own children you are still a child in their hands like we are pencils in the hand of the creator, which as a matter of fact is true but making decisions for us is not part of it at all.

It has been like that for a very long time but lately I noticed that things are changing, the fact that parents and households now leave their children to make decisions all by themselves, so I keep wondering why , maybe it could be the civilization that has overwhelmed us in this nation, the culture of the white people that has brought modernization into the nation, into our country Nigeria, which has allowed teenagers, young youth and even a growing up child to do what they want in peace but when we ask our dear fathers and mothers in the house they would say life is moving on so we should move with it and even the children would say this is 21st century, you can't force a child to do what what he or she does not want to do but in the twentieth century they were forced to do what their parents told them to do but still they would say it's civilization which I agree with them absolutely because life now is different from life in those days, then most people that make decisions make wrong decisions like getting married at a very young age without any business or achievements on ground to build the families but still some still went ahead with it, that's why till today we still have many children out there that do not have a father or a mother or even both so I stand with them, that is the children of nowadays know better than those one from the past.

In conclusion

We have to understand that civilization and modernization has taken over our nation, so has it is going we have to go with it and live by it and most importantly our parents let's carry them along and other teenagers or children that we know that needs this information because

""" we are the leaders of tomorrow """

They always say but where there is no tomorrow there cannot be a leader for tomorrow, that's all for now.

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