We were even forced to call our house helps 'aunty' as a honorable tittle. We were made to believe that every man who is not your father or a relative is your uncle while all the women were aunties and whenever a man came around we were told to greet uncle.This was maybe our parents thought we had very little memory to remind the names and faces of all these people or just to ensure that we never called our seniors by their names.
Most children still fall for this trick though. It only dawned to some of us that he was just an actor and the movie was just an imitation based on the bible when we grew older. Jim Caviezel,the man who plays the role of Jesus of Nazareth in the renown movie 'Passion of Christ' portraying the actual life of Jesus on earth,his crucifixion and death was made to be the real son of God to us. We were still too young to understand the real situation.īy now however,we understand that God is everywhere even though He is higher than us. We were always made to believe that the supreme being lives somewhere above the clouds and we believed it because on many occasions we saw people,including our parents themselves ,facing up when praying.
Mothers usually have a hard time elaborating to their children the process of child formation probably because the process is a bit hard and uncomfortable to tell to a kid.Our mothers too had the same challenge when we were still still little and we were always told that babies are bought in shops whenever curiosity came in.
Here are some lies we were told when growing up. However,this does not make it perfect as it is also at this stage of life that one is completely clueless and vulnerable to lies and as a result the people near result to lies whenever the questions just cant stop coming.Īt times the questions are too sensitive or uncomfortable to answer forcing the recipients to look for alternatives answers which on most occasions are partly untrue or complete lies,while at times they just don't want to be honest.
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