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Children’s Day 2018 was celebrated on a Sunday! As I sat watching the children present what they had for us, my mind instantly raced to twenty years later. What does the future hold in store for these innocent minds? I couldn’t help but wonder. Then came the session where they had to list the points […]

Let me break it down! I am a mother of four biological children and about a hundred and twenty professionally adopted kids, I teach the English Language daily to a class of 11-year-olds, I write on my social media pages daily, I am the Executive Director of an Education Foundation, I am a research student,

A few days back, while engaged in a discussion on life and issues surrounding life events, my colleagues and I drifted to the part people don’t talk about. The part that doesn’t sound so good nor appealing. The part people never include in their success stories. The tough part that usually always leads to the success we often

How did you learn about sex? If not from either parent, do you think learning about sex from your parent would have made the journey easier? Many parents, because they were not spoken to about sex by their parents, find it difficult engaging the children on matters as this. I remember the first day I

When asked what we want for our kids, most answers veer towards having children who succeed in life. While children don’t generally have a grasp on the world that they live in at a younger age, by modeling the right parenting habits, we can help adjust them in the right way to the world as

I posted a statement on my social media pages last week. This particular statement was made by a Reverend Father and spurred up a number of reactions from internet users. It was quite funny though because as the usual Nigerians we are, we began to quote scriptures from the Bible. Anyway, who wouldn’t? After all,

We have officially been ushered into the heat season! Yesterday, I had cranky kids all over the school compound and imagined what most nights are like in some homes. For the parent, this is a really tough time because you have to sleepily check up on the kids in the middle of the night when

In a gathering a few weeks back, I heard the facilitator talk about how Nigeria is perceived by individuals who have never been to the country as a place of “chaos”, a place where nothing good happens. More like a country in periods of “senseless wars” I think to myself “No! How? Why? My Nigeria?”

It is often said, “Parenting is Hard Work”. Oh yes! It is. To make the hard work worth the while, here are some easy steps to flow within 2018. Set Goals: We have moved from the age of “resolutions” to the “goal setting” age. By this term I mean not just writing out what should