Afrobeats singer Terry G has said that poor parental upbringing plays a major role in the challenges many Nigerians face in life.
In a post on X, he explained that negative words spoken by parents can damage children’s self-esteem, leaving lasting effects into adulthood.
According to him, when people express self-doubt or limit themselves, they are often echoing what they repeatedly heard from their parents while growing up.
Terry G urged Nigerians to break the cycle by embracing a positive mindset, stressing that individuals can rise above such limitations and reach their full potential by changing the way they think.
Terry G wrote, “Our Nigerian parents really do many of us strong things. The point I’m making is this: when you come under my post saying you’ll never make it, that’s not really you speaking, it’s the voice of what you grew up hearing at home. When you say, ‘you can’t do this, you can’t do that,’ you’re only repeating what your father and mother told you growing up.
“Now you see you’ve carried that same energy into adulthood, and that’s why many are stuck in failure. It’s time to break that cycle. It’s time to change that mindset”.