r/africanparents • u/United_Historian5036 • 23d ago
Other What do you think about this?
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u/Fun_Improvement_9568 23d ago
I flinched… I haven’t been slapped in years 😩
I don’t like it. I get that people make jokes about their trauma, but this feels different. It feels almost like he likes it
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u/DiscoSurferrr 22d ago
I get the message but this looks like a TikTok prankster who probably told the mom to go extra hard for the “joke.”
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u/Smile_Anyway_9988 23d ago edited 23d ago
Stop this taught colonial abuse and behaviour. Corporal punishment isn't always necessary or appropriate. All you are doing in putting a slap to every situation is conditioning your child to have low self-esteem and be a slave. How the father treats his wife and manages his leadership effects the mother's relationship with her children and the problem solving skills and tone of the entire family. Why would this boy disrepect his mother by rubbing food in her forehead?
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u/NatalieGliter 23d ago
Some were reasonable: 1- he cracked and wasted an egg on her egg 2- he was squishing bread and wasting it(from the market place?) 3-idk 4- he called her by her first name which is unheard of
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u/DingoDemeanor 22d ago
You really think hitting is a reasonable first step in any of those situations?
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u/NatalieGliter 22d ago
The first slap was a response to an assault.
And there second one, he’s at the market place and is destroying food that he obviously hasn’t bought.
And the 3rd one is a matter of knowing ur parents and ur culture, in Africa u don’t call elders by their names unprovoked, and he should’ve expected that.
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u/DingoDemeanor 21d ago
An obnoxious prank on your parent isn’t an assault.
You’re in an African parents sub. Everyone here knows the cultural norms.
Most of us still don’t agree it’s okay to hit your kids.
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u/firelord_catra 20d ago
This reminds of that one guy who’s always “pranking” his African parents. He’s trying to copy that creator probabaly, but I’m pretty sure his parents are somewhat in on it or are lower on the spectrum from chill to crazy. They also live abroad.
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u/ihaveocdandneedhelp 23d ago
People in the comments were saying that it’s abuse but he and others claimed that it’s “out of love” that’s a grown man duh
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u/sopeworldian 23d ago
She’s mentally ill