Teaching Maths

I hate maths.im a lawyer most of us hate math’s. bout 2 years ago I was doin my compulsory service to the government AKA NYSC . I stayed with a nice family of lawyers. Father lawyer, mother lawyer and the son of bout 4 who dreamt of being just like daddy.

Now the boy was my personal person. I was the one that taught him how to spell his name, told him that N and M are two different alphabets, gave him chocolates, coke etc in the privacy of my room and sent him to his parents when the sugar hype kicked in. And most importantly I helped him with his home work (I especially loved the coloring homework I bribed him not to tell daddy then we shared the coloring btw me and him). That is the part of his homework that did not involve maths. I left that for his dad. Not that I can’t do it I rem sayin but at least I left some work for you.
There was this day that his dad called and begged me to help him coz he and madam would be late. I did not panic how hard can it be. The boy is 4 I can handle nursery school maths-or so I thot. The home work was basically _ + 3 = 4. Easy we did it together I waited eagerly for him to return from school the next day. To cut a long story short for the first time in his math book he had a 7 over 10 as opposed to 10 over 10. I panicked I wanted to tear out the page/ go to his school and fight with the teacher/ hide his assignment book. Daddy 4gave me. I was given one more chance. In oda not to mess up again I brought out my fone used the calculator and told him the answers. I did not pretend to teach him afterall they thot him in school so he has the idea. Plus I had to redeem myself. As soon as I finished cross checkin his answers and makin sure all was rite in walked mummy. Typical I hissed she waited for me to do the hard part before coming home. She picked his assignment book and asked how he arrived at the answer to number one. To my horror he said “aunty anonymous gal said I shld write 3” she glared at my pink face. “How bout no 2” she asked aunty anonymous gal said I shld write 8” chei see me see wahala.and that continued up to no 10. I mean after no 2 she shld have known that I told him the ans but she had to rob insult to injury.
Suffice to say I neva did his maths home work again.