TOKE MAKINWA TALKS ABOUT EMOTIONAL ABUSE BETWEEN PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN

Media personality and author, Toke Makinwa has taken to her Twitter page to talk about how people rarely take note of the emotional abuse that happens between parents and their children.

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Toke Makinwa
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I had a chat on my show about emotional abuse yesterday and I have made up my mind to raise awareness on this topic… read next tweets

10:47 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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When people hear emotional abuse they are quick to think man/woman dynamic but do you know parents emotionally abuse their kids too

10:48 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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You hear how some parents talk down on their children, the harsh words used to correct them, magnifying their weakness and in some cases

10:50 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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Some mothers take the frustration of the fathers out on their kids, some fathers in a bid to get back at their wives do the same

10:52 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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You hear of a man divorcing his wife and out of bitterness inflicts the pain on his children, he doesn’t pay school fees….

10:53 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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The woman also out of bitterness of the father leaving takes her anger out on the children words like “you are useless like your father” …

10:56 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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Even in work places, a boss uses his position to talk down at everyone, emotional abuse is not restricted to love relationships alone

10:57 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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Sometimes the perpetrators don’t even know it. There’s a cycle of my parents raised me that way and I didn’t die therefore my kids won’t too

10:57 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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Some of us were raised in hostile homes, mummy and daddy’s mood determined the general mood in the house

10:59 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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When they fight you dare not come of your room or ask for anything, sometimes you blame yourself for why your parents hate each other

11:00 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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They won’t separate because of what the society would say but the children go thru hell and endure the result of the bad choices they made

11:01 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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That child now grows up and if help is not given goes on to be abusive in his own relationship too. It’s a Cycle we must break

11:02 AM – Oct 11, 2017
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