If you don't recognize the chapter name, kindly start calling me Ma, I no be your mate.
{ Family Ties is an old television series, so old I don't even remember what it's about}
In every 9ja family, there's the good, the bad, the weird, and the unbelievable. You might be a combination of two or more characteristics.
Read very carefully and evaluate yourself. Then tell me your combo in the comments!!!
1. The Strict Parent: or as I like to say: Bad cop. If you watch crime/detective shows, you'd know there's a certain technique to interviewing suspects. One cop goes in, plays sympathetic, the other riles them up and threatens: Good cop, bad cop.
In some families, bad cop is the dad, others; mom. But one thing is clear, you don't mess with bad cop. Some parents take their bad cop role too far and alienate their kids, but that's a story for another day.
The mention of bad cop brings order to the home and most kids regard bad cop with a sort of fear mixed in with a bit of dislike. Bad cop definitely is the family disciplinarian.
Deux:
Les Understandine: The parent that grabs, the one that gets it. the Good cop. Good cop could be either mom or dad. And Good cop should definitely not be pissed off or else, 'nuff said.
3. First born: aka the deputy parent. Lol. First borns suffer, they also enjoy. Responsibilities, respect. Who gets the blame when something goes wrong? Well other than the baby who cannot talk? First born. Who gets correctional duty? First born. He/She is literally in charge of everything and every one. Being a 9ja first born takes 'be your brother's keeper' to another level.
4. Last born: also called the baby of the house. Last borns annoy virtually everybody in the house. But when they're threatened, everyone rallies round to protect him/her. He/She is particularly close to the parents, don't ask me why.
5. Lazy kid: The lazy ass kid. The one who takes forever to stand up let alone do a chore. Usually whoever is in charge gets tired of waiting for 'lazy' to do something and then sends someone else. So lazy gets his way or her way, anyway.
6. Organizer: In a house, there's always one person that the people in the shops around will know. The one who goes to the market, the informal officer in charge of the small stuff. The one that goes out to buy, buy, buy!!!
7. Sick kid: Even if your family is filled with health nuts, there's always one person who flails once in a while. If you see drugs in the house, just know it's for so-so, if you hear coughing inside the parlor, so-so has started displaying. You start seeing tissues everywhere? So-so is at it again. Really it's not the kids fault, doesn't mean I have to be happy when I've caught whatever sickness is going around.
8. Body-conscious kid: this is actually kinda divided into two; the appearance conscious kid and the nude conscious kid. Let's take appearance first, this kid can't go anywhere dressed anyhow, if he/she is not as dressed up as Cinderella, they're not moving an inch.
Nude conscious kid is so my brother, even as a little kid, he'd wrap himself up in his towels so tight, we'd be scared of him suffocating. He also didn't want me bathing him... He gets uncomfortable when him or someone else is nude or semi-nude.
9. Snitch: My least favoritekid, if the whole house agrees to protect someone, snitch will find a way to expose everyone. Not cool kid, not cool.
10. Liar liar vampire: This one can lie for Africa, chai! Half of what comes out of this bruv's mouth is a lie, a big lie. You'd have difficulty realizing the truth if it came out of this one's mouth.
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Sorry for not posting, my phone is dead and buried. God knows when I will get a new one.
So, any additions? Combo?
I'm a 3 myself, also a nerd. There might be a part two of this given the fact that I'm rushing through this.
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Zia out (insert peace sign here)
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