My daughter asked for a sweet sixteen party, I told her to check her father's account balance

My daughter came to me on Sunday evening with a printed invitation. Her friend's sweet sixteen is holding at a hall in Bromley, and she wants her own party next year. She even had a budget on her phone. I looked at the figure and told her to go and check her father's account balance first.

My dear, this girl started crying. She said I am wicked and that I want to embarrass her in front of her friends. I just looked at her and asked her one simple question. Does she know how much I sent to Ibadan last month for her grandmother's hospital bill? She kept quiet. I told her the same money she wants to use for cake and DJ is the same money that buys her school shoes and feeds us when the pound is playing games with us.

Ah ah, she now went to her father to report me. My Ghanaian husband just laughed and told her to go and look for a job. See ehn, these children think money grows on trees because they see us smiling on WhatsApp. I am not saying no party forever, but she must understand that a sweet sixteen does not have to mean a sweet twenty thousand pounds. Anyway, I don talk my own. Who else has a child that thinks they are living in a music video?