10/11/2025
It's Monday morning my people, let’s talk from the heart today.
Too many times, I hear people say, “Abeg, I’m not an English teacher. I just need to speak small to pass my message.” But have you ever paused to think about who is listening when you speak?
It’s not just you and your friends. It’s the little ones—your children, your students, your nieces and nephews—those innocent ears that are learning how to express themselves by watching you.
Let’s be honest. You may not realize it, but you are your child’s first English teacher.
Before that teacher in school corrects them, they have already learnt your voice, your tone, your words. If you say “I am coming” when you mean “I’ll be right back,” they’ll grow up believing that’s correct. If you say “He is my junior brother,” they’ll repeat it confidently in public.
This isn’t about forming accent or trying to sound “posh.”
No. It’s about communication, confidence, and legacy.
When a child learns to speak well, they carry themselves differently. They express ideas boldly. They stand in any gathering and speak with clarity and pride.
That is power.
And that power begins with you—the parent, the teacher, the caregiver.
You see, English may not be our mother tongue, but it has become the language of schools, of opportunity, of global connection. So if we truly want our children to thrive beyond our walls, we must give them the gift of good English—not just in books, but in daily speech.
When you say, “What is you people’s problem?” in front of a child, that becomes their English.
When you say, “He did not used to come,” you are unknowingly teaching error as truth.
And tomorrow, that same child will struggle to unlearn what could have been taught right.
My dear mothers, teachers, aunties, uncles—this is bigger than grammar.
It’s about planting confidence in the next generation.
Because when a child speaks right, they think right.
When they think right, they see possibilities.
And when they see possibilities, they ri
