Omanghana
UK-based Ghanaian musician Stephanie Benson has shared an unusual approach she used to maintain discipline at home, revealing that she told her children she was a witch to discourage them from misbehaving.
Speaking on Hitz 103.9 FM’s Daybreak Hitz on October 7, 2026, the mother of five discussed the difficulties of raising children abroad and the approach she adopted to keep them in check.
“Bringing up children abroad is difficult, so I scared them by telling them I am a witch,” she said, according to an excerpt from the interview shared by the station.
Benson presented the story as a humorous recollection of her parenting experience. She explained that the idea was to make her children believe she had an extraordinary ability to discover what they were doing, even when she was not physically present.
By encouraging that impression, she sought to make them think carefully about their behavior and the possibility that she would find out about their actions.
Her account offered a glimpse into the challenges she associated with bringing up five children in a foreign environment, particularly the task of setting boundaries and maintaining parental authority.
The discussion shifted attention from Benson’s music career to her experiences as a mother. Through the anecdote, she described how she used her children’s imagination as part of her efforts to manage behavior at home.
Her reference to being a witch was presented in the context of that disciplinary tactic, rather than as a declaration of supernatural powers.
Source: Omanghana
