Despite being a comic actor, I discipline my children –Nollywood actor, Okon Lagos

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Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop, popularly known as Okon Lagos, talks to ALEXANDER OKERE about the gains and lessons from family life

My father never resorted to physically beating a child. My father was a very good talker. I learnt the virtue of negotiation and not resorting to violence and bullying a child into submission. He was lovable; he never left any stone unturned in learning anything. I tried as much as I could to imbibe those qualities and see if I could make a direct copy and paste of these virtues. The one I can’t copy, I adjust and see how they can fit it.

In the course of training, you have to be commonsensical in your teaching or what you tell them. I didn’t have a silver spoon in my mouth. So, they are privileged that they wake up in the morning and go to the school they want to go to, eat what they want and wear what they want to wear. It is because of sheer grace that God anointed and blessed the works of my hands. Some people work hard but do not earn as much as I do.

Nigeria turned 61 on October 1; as a family man, what are your thoughts about the state of affairs in the country?

 

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