[let me tell you what really matters.reality!when coming home, we make sure we expose our kids to 100% reality in nigeria. not only bringing them here, hotel nye nye, city nye nye, 24/7 gen nye nye. we make sure we spend as much time as possible in the east, village self! we take them to the local market, we eat local food, we make use of public transportation and drink pure water once in a while. we make sure they see and know how an animal is killed,because knowing where your food comes from helps understanding the value of natural resources. we stay without light if there is none, we use firewood to cook at times, we leave them to run around the compound, get dirty and sandy, and just enjoy their environment. they are free here. bonding is so so important, most especially when the kids grow. every time they come back here they bond with their people again, it may take a year, but once we all reunite its like we have never been gone. when we are all together we share responsibilities, and the care for the kids, it doesnt matter if they are my kids or my nephews and nieces, if we are together we are all one. so we all share the chores. unity and solidarity are what I experience here!FAMILY is what I have here.I am home in a foreign place ??]

A German woman married to a Nigerian man has shared her experience in Nigeria and how she's raising her 3 kids to have a sense of belonging and understand their Nigerian roots Nicole Chilaka-Ukpo recently returned with her husband from Germany to the Eastern part of Nigeria for the Christmas holiday. They returned with their kids - 2 boys and a girl.

According to Nicole Chilaka-Ukpo, she’s raising her 3 kids to have a sense of belonging and understand their Nigerian roots. She further disclosed that when they are in the country, they expose their kids to the 100% reality in Nigeria and not only lodging them in hotels. Nicole took to Facebook to narrate what it's been like for her and her kids in Imo state, Nigeria.

The 28-year-old wrote:
let me tell you what really matters.
reality!
when coming home, we make sure we expose our kids to 100% reality in nigeria. not only bringing them here, hotel nye nye, city nye nye, 24/7 gen nye nye.
we make sure we spend as much time as possible in the east, village self!  we take them to the local market, we eat local food, we make use of public transportation and drink pure water once in a while. we make sure they see and know how an animal is killed,because knowing where your food comes from helps understanding the value of natural resources. we stay without light if there is none, we use firewood to cook at times, we leave them to run around the compound, get dirty and sandy, and just enjoy their environment. they are free here. bonding is so so important, most especially when the kids grow. every time they come back here they bond with their people again, it may take a year, but once we all reunite its like we have never been gone. when we are all together we share responsibilities, and the care for the kids, it doesnt matter if they are my kids or my nephews and nieces, if we are together we are all one. so we all share the chores.
unity and solidarity are what I experience here!
FAMILY is what I have here.
I am home in a foreign place ??

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Posted: at 18-12-2018 05:08 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac

[What a beautiful story from a good woman, mother and daughter in law...]

What a beautiful story from a good woman, mother and daughter in law...

Posted: at 18-12-2018 07:23 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac

My ex wife did all that, she left me after 11 years coz people started telling her I cheated on her ,which ain't true

Posted: at 18-12-2018 07:31 PM (5 years ago) | Upcoming

My ex wife did all that, she left me after 11 years coz people started telling her I cheated on her ,which ain't true

she will not leave you if there is no prove .

Posted: at 18-12-2018 08:00 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Naija 4lyf

Posted: at 18-12-2018 08:32 PM (5 years ago) | Newbie

she will not leave you if there is no prove .

There isn't no prove till date . Her niece came to live with us which I kicked against coz she was everywhere and wants to know everything.  That was how she started making allegations , after our divorce we became friends till date.  That was how she find out she was lying

Posted: at 18-12-2018 08:41 PM (5 years ago) | Upcoming

Just be careful. Kidnapping is real over there o!

Posted: at 18-12-2018 10:34 PM (5 years ago) | Upcoming

[What a beautiful story from a good woman, mother and daughter in law...]

What a beautiful story from a good woman, mother and daughter in law...

I HONESTLY BOUGHT YOUR GOOD UNDERSTANDING

Posted: at 18-12-2018 11:20 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac

My ex wife did all that, she left me after 11 years coz people started telling her I cheated on her ,which ain't true

Sorry bru.. Things like that happens

Posted: at 19-12-2018 01:38 AM (5 years ago) | Upcoming

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Posted: at 19-12-2018 05:36 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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