Nigerian actress and television personality Bisola Aiyeola has open up on why, in spite of backlash over some of her parenting decisions, she declined to get a phone for her 15-year-old daughter.
Bisola Aiyeola revealed that she received backlash for being overly careful when she forbade her daughter from having a phone till she turned sixteen in the most recent episode of “Mums Next Door” featuring Maria Chike.
People have criticised Bisola Aiyeola‘s choice, wondering how her daughter would handle crises or if it would cause her to regress academically, according to Bisola.
She did, however, reassure her daughter that she had a laptop for schooling and could use Zoom to call her pals.
She also recounted an incident where she discovered her daughter had opened a smart chat account on her laptop, leading Bisola to extend the phone ban by another year as a form of discipline.
Bisola Aiyeola had this to say:
“Yes, I have been judged by my parenting skills. So, my daughter turned 15 this year, and she still doesn’t have a phone. I have been pretty strict with that part of her life, and she kind of begged.
“I told her she wouldn’t have a phone till she was 16, so she still had one more year to go. And people have been asking me, like, what if there is an emergency?
“Wouldn’t she be behind her pairs and all, but she has a laptop for school work?
“If her friends need to talk to her, they can call her on Zoom. Sometimes, people feel like I am overdoing it, or I am trying to be overprotective, and I am like, well, that’s your business.
“There was a time I found out she opened a smart chat account on a laptop, and I was like, how? I disciplined her, which made me extend her phone usage by a year because she was supposed to get it this year at 15″.
