HeyJaredThe African Parent
The African Parent is a soulful space where African culture meets modern parenting. We honour our roots, unpack generational patterns, and raise children with pride, purpose, and love, both on the continent and in the diaspora.
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Your child’s GCSE results are not the end of the story (opens the original)
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Last Thursday, thousands of teenagers across the country opened envelopes, refreshed portals and discovered what a collection of numbers was about to do to the mood in their house for the foreseeable future.GCSE results day.For some families, there was screaming, hugging and immediate WhatsApp distribution of the evidence. You know how we do. Before the child has even properly processed their grades, somebody in Lagos who has never met their maths teacher already knows they got a 7.For other fam
The parents who refused to wait for a crisis (opens the original)
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I stood in front of a room full of boys between 11 and 18 and spoke about the law and how one decision can change the direction of your life. A message sent as a joke. A knife carried because everyone else has one. A situation that felt insignificant until the police became involved, the school called home or somebody got hurt.We talked about knife crime, consent, sexual behaviour and boundaries, grooming, gangs, social media and the reality that young Black boys are often judged more harshly. W
My childhood didn’t need a LinkedIn profile (opens the original)
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I don’t remember having a timetable as a child. I had chores.Somewhere between sweeping the house, peeling vegetables, being sent to buy bread from the shop before they “closed forever” (they never did), and trying to avoid washing the mountain of Sunday plates, I somehow still found time to have a childhood.We played video games when NEPA allowed. We made up games. We argued. We got bored. We annoyed our parents. We figured things out.No one was asking me where I saw myself in ten years.Today,
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