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<p>Sometimes, Gen-Z isn’t even the problem.</p><p>They’re just a group trying to break free from horrible traits, toxic discipline, and suffocating cultural norms that have been passed down for generations.</p><p><br/></p><p>The change is happening.</p><p>But the way it’s unfolding? It often feels so disruptive that older generations think the world is ending.</p><p><br/></p><p>Take this for example:</p><p>A mother who praises every other child except her own.</p><p>No matter how small the achievement, she applauds just not when it’s her child.</p><p>As if acknowledging your own child’s wins is an abomination.</p><p>Now, that child has options:</p><p> • Sit their mother down and speak sense into her.</p><p> • Walk away and never look back.</p><p> • Or sink into depression so deep it ends in suicide.</p><p>Back in the old generations, this wasn’t allowed.</p><p>Children were expected to just “try harder.”</p><p>Try and try and try until they broke.</p><p>But today? We’re no longer breaking in silence.</p><p>We’re talking back.</p><p>We’re walking away.</p><p>We’re refusing to kill ourselves trying to earn love that should’ve been unconditional.</p><p>Another thing that fascinates me about this generation: our spirituality.</p><p>Say what you want about our gender identities, pronouns, and choices</p><p>but our connection to God? Strong.</p><p>Africans hate to hear “LGBTQ” and “God” in the same sentence.</p><p>Yet, I see lesbians going to church.</p><p>I see gay men praying in mosques.</p><p>It’s not easy for them, but they’re doing it.</p><p>They’re carving paths for the generations after them.</p><p>Firstborns?</p><p>We’re the ones breaking generational trauma.</p><p>We’re challenging parents, tearing down toxic expectations, forcing change whether they like it or not.</p><p>It’s not easy.</p><p>It’s messy.</p><p>But at least,Finally we’re making a change.</p><p><br/></p><p>I just hope every African mother and father learns to reason with us.</p>
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