Kenyan parents are a unique lot with characteristics, likes and reactions unique to them. If you were raised with Kenyan parents, then you are familiar with some of the unique traits, I’ll mention a few if not all.
The eye your parent gives you when a guest at your home calls you over to have some food that was meant for them. The eye is used as a warning sign for you to dare not say yes to that request or suffer their wrath afterwards.
The sarcastic yell and comments they make when they hear you breaking cutlery in the kitchen or hitting the dishes when washing on the sink. It usually goes something like, vunja yote, ata kijiko vunja.
Somehow the sense of sound and smell work together. When they insist you reduce the volume of the TV so that they can smell whether some food is burning in the kitchen.
When they take the money your rich relatives generously gave to you and justify it with statements like, they paid your school fees and you live under their roof.
Anything is a weapon. Kenyan parents can whoop you up with a slipper, belt, cooking stick tree branch or use their bare hands. Trying to defend yourself or guard yourself from a whooping will be seen as treason and your aunties and uncles will be notified immediately.
Read also; Why children should not ask parents for their wealth.
Uniform that lasts a lifetime. Kenyan parents can buy their child an oversized uniform with the logic of the child growing with the uniform and not having to buy uniform again.
All in all, we love our parents and soon we probably will have such characteristics that they might have passed down to us.
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