14 photos of Nigerian parents expectation vs reality

When it comes to school, especially with tertiary education, Nigerian parents mostly have expectations that are too far from the actual reality of what is happening.



Here are some of their expectations versus the actual reality of what is happening:

1. Freedom or cage

When most parents let their children out of the home to attend a university, they have the idea that their children are in the wind, enjoying freedom, since they are now living on their own. Most parents usually picture their children like this:

But the truth is that school is just another type of cage for students. Having to attend classes, practicals and a million other things to do. So for some students, this is how they really see school:

2. Flamboyant lifestyle or poverty

Usually with tertiary education comes more financial needs, so when every week their child calls home for more and more money, most parents have this picture in their minds:

However, with the amount of payments students make in schools these days, this usually how they are at the beginning of each new month:

3. Learning and playing games

When they send their children to study, especially engineering courses or law, most parents have this idea of the children studying every moment, like this…

However, the truth is mostly likely that students are actually doing this all day:

4. Partying or sleeping?

Partly due to the news we hear daily, when parents think of their children in school they always picture them living wild lives, partying and staying up all night. They think this is their children every night:

While there is some partying, this represents only a small percentage of the students. The rest including your child is probably at home, every night like this:

5. Clean room or dirty one?

Ask any parent and they will tell you how well trained their children are, and how their rooms will be clean. So when they decide to pay their children a surprise visit in school, they expect to see a room like this:

So, they are usually shocked when the room is like this:

6. Addictions

Most parents are scared that their students will become addicted to smoking marijuana, once they get to the university. So every Sunday, they are calling to remind them to be good. Please don’t become like this:

But the truth is the only thing you are addicted to is this:

7. Girls

When parents think of you with the opposite sex in school, they almost always imagine that you are up to no good, that you are probably there in school like:

While the real truth is you are probably so shy, you are like this: