Normalize rejecting expensive gifts from your kids – OAP Dotun advises parents
Ava White
Updated on April 07, 2026
Nigerian on-air personality, Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode, popularly known as Do2Tun, has advised parents to normalize rejecting some gifts from their children.
The OAP gave this advice via his Twitter page on Tuesday, July 18.
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According to him, it is important that parents reject expensive gifts from their children when the value cannot be equated with what they do for a living.
“Dear Parents, let’s normalize rejecting some gifts from our kids.
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“Sometimes when your kids buy u expensive gifts & u can’t equate what they do to what they give you or u don’t know how they make their money; You can reject it. They are still your children & they will be alright,” he wrote.
Dear Parents, let’s normalize rejecting some gifts from our kids. Sometimes when your kids buy u expensive gifts & u can’t equate what they do to what they give you or u don’t know how they make their money; You can reject it. They are still your children & they will be alright
— Do2dtun Energy gAD (@iamDo2dtun) July 18, 2023
Netizens react:
@uzomaeze: “Word.”
@nmesoma_chidera: “Emphasis on “you can’t equate what they do to what they give you””
@Theodor23188671: “Gbam, dem go still come drag you for telling the truth.”
@MamZees: “Nigerian parents please listen.”
@ALAWAYEQUDUS: “Not in today’s world. Ounje Omo ni won ma pe.”
@badgirlempress: “Fact boss.”