7 Ways To Keep Nigeria Family Relationships Warm While In UK, US

By Cami Ezenwa

It is said that the family is the strongest unit of any society, maintaining warm family relationships therefore becomes essential

Whether nuclear or extended, the family remains the closest and usually the most supportive unit in the upbringing, education and career development of an individual.

However, sustaining the bond, love and affection that exist in a family can sometimes be knotty, especially where one part is resident overseas.

These days it has become common hearing talks, witness firsthand, incidences of frosty relationships between family members and their overseas -resident siblings.

This is the crux of the issue.

How indeed can Nigerians who have travelled to the the United States of America (USA), United Kingdom, Canada oor Australia etc sustain warm family relationships with people at home?

Why Is It Important?

We reference with the adage that, East or West, Home is best. There is no reason why anyone should cut off from the place where God caused them to be born, God Himself being perfect in His decisions.

He certainly has a reason for choosing our birth places, and we should seek to fulfill our obligations there.

There are certainly times or situations when/you would need warm family relationships to get ahead.

Securing family steads including landmarks and boundaries, conducting stressless social events including marriages, namings, coronations, or returning home to settle finally.

Are you abroad and desire to keep Nigeria family relationships warm?

This write-up will x-ray 7 points how.

1. Constant Touch

One error a diaspora Nigerian would make towards family relationships is non communication. The simple conclusion is: you see, now that he has travelled abroad, we have become useless and they tend to, not just wait for,  but actually conjure situations to enable them get back.

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Don’t say, when I begin to make the mega bucks, I will reach out to them. Mega bucks could tarry in coming and the relationship would have become frosty.

2. Show interest in their welfare

There are many things concerned with welfare outside money. Academic and  career progress of siblings are examples.

Even if you are not yet in position to send money, you can at least show interest in the well-being of family members.

By virtue of superior exposure, share tips that can help others’ progress.

Examples include mailing scholarship opportunities or sponsored training details. Even if they do not materialise eventually, you would have registered your care in their progress.

3. You Can Actually Give Something

The truth is that all of us can always have something to spare for others, no matter how meagre.

Someone says, and I agree, God did not create a totally useless person.

Another person shared a tip in a church setting the other day, how this could happen. Some people, for example, are good at encouraging. Some can rummage through existing governmental policy and analyse it in terms of bringing out implications succinctly.

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A sister says she does not have much financially, but has learnt to convert her breakfast and lunch money to humanitarian seeds any day she is on fast.

In other words, the money that should have funded her meal during fast, she quickly sets aside for humanitarian deeds.

4. There is magic in your foreign currency

I cannot forget the first time, I laid hands on  foreign currency – the dollar as real owner. it was like magic, not so much for the value as it is for the prestige. Some people will wave it around for days.  Imagine if you were the source.

5. Educational And Career Direction

This is especially important where there are younger ones trying to climb the ladder of life

Tips here and there from your wealth of exposure can be the light to their own life’s progress.

You could offer counseling in terms of marketable courses and careers likely to shape the future.

Leave it at general advice anyway, so that no one would turn round to hold you in future, should anything go wrong

6. Sowing For Your Tomorrow

Let’s face it, keeping warm family relationships, especially with people at home is a factor in securing a peaceful retirement future,, either for you as a person or those coming from your loins. Like it or not, there are spheres of influence that resides with people at home. This can never be extended to you at need, if there had not been a pre-existing warm relationships with those people.

7. Explore The Soft Windows

Depending, namings as mentioned earlier; children’s Day celebrations and wedding anniversaries of uncles and aunties are among  available soft windows to help one keep home family relationships warm and friendly. And they are usually low budget. Explore them.

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Haven’t You Noticed?

Have you not noticed, one has to  literally have to move around with a guide if visiting home for the first time, after a long stay in Lagos, Abuja or Kano. How much more would it be, if they had been in the UK, America, Canada or Australia!

What do you think?