If you are the first child to Nigerian parents, here are a few things I’m sure you can relate to.

1.You are the guinea pig!

Your parents use you to test out EVERYTHING! From methods of discipline to household routines, child psychology and even their own value systems. In other words, you are a lab rat. Very painfully, you will watch your siblings get away with things you wouldn’t have dared dream about doing—like ignoring curfews, and you will watch as your parents bend the rules for them when they suddenly decide that knocks on the head are unnecessarily violent.

Like, where was all that wisdom when I was 5?

You are the standard

If any child is most likely to hear the question ‘Does so and so have two heads?’ it is you, the firstborn. You are expected to be an A-student, and also be skillful and domesticated. Of course, you must wear other hats such as caregiver, problem solver, paragon of virtue, and overall superhero. It is this model of perfection that your parents will use to compare your siblings to you when they ask: ‘Why can’t you be more like your sister?’ You might as well just accept it as a circle of life.
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