Comedian Wale Gates made sympathizes with the Redeemer University student who reportedly killed his father during a disagreement in their home last week. (If you missed it, read here). Now popular OAP Freeze Coolfm has written a write-up sharing a little bit of his own experience together with his own father growing up and also sheds some light on why some parents are way too hard on the children. Read his article below...
I read with much respect and admiration Wale Gates tweets about the student who killed his father at the redeemed camp, and I must say he has greatly earned my respect. He chose to speak out instead of condemning and threw some light on the enormity of an issue we most often take for granted.
However, I must point out that even though we both sympathize with the boy’s predicament as truly many times parents turn beating, which indeed is a good form of punishment into abuse, standing up to ones parents is a sin as great in proportion to, or even greater than adultery, murder and stealing. Continue...