Do you know that Tiger Nuts: Are tubers that grow under the earth’s surface? Tiger nuts are also called nutsedge, tiger nutsedge or earth almond. Is a good source of fibre? Is a good substitute for lactose intolerance. Are rich in Vitamins E and C? Is helpful against malnutrition? Are potassium boosters? Regulate blood sugar […]
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I once heard someone say, “All of you wey dey get mind treat house girl so, una no dey fear say na she dey give you and your children food chop?” This got me thinking for weeks. I imagined all sorts that could go wrong between my staff and my children, though in my case,
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Simply put, to parent means to act as a father or mother to someone. It means to provide care for an individual. A parent is, therefore, one who whether by biology, adoption or surrogacy, takes charge of caring for a person. I remember growing up, we lived in a block of flats. This block was
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To succeed in the New Year, we as parents have to set goals. These goals barely even make it to the second day of the new year because of course there will be the children busy innocently ensuring that the goals are difficult tasks to achieve. So this New Year, one of your set parenting
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In this part of the country, gender roles are taken very seriously. The home has the man and the woman, the boys and the girls. The woman should submit, while the man should love. The girls should be “girly” while the boys should be “boyey”. That was how I was raised. I have grown to
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Often times as parents, we want the children to be just anything good. If there are ballet classes going on, we push them there. If tomorrow it’s piano classes, we join the pack. We move with the trend. Doing what every other parent seems to be doing and forgetting that every child is unique. The challenge isn’t in the movement
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While growing up, I’ve known that the one who wets the bed is usually embarrassed among his/her peers. But among siblings? I never knew until I began the parenting journey. Children are different. Raising the girls, I hadn’t faced the bed wetting challenge until I had my third. Then with the odour of the aftermath,
We have all gone agog with the Libya Slave Trade story. The videos, pictures, inside stories, have all brought tears to our eyes in some way or another. As humans, we are very quick to point fingers, to blame others and also to pick out failures in the activities of others forgetting that as we
Permit me to discuss this topic from the viewpoint of a parent, an educator and a one-time boarder. I attended a Unity school when Unity Schools were the talk of the town. In those days, if as a parent your child wasn’t in a Federal school, you would do all within your reach to …
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Discipline is a positive method of correcting behaviour. Discipline encourages good behaviour by teaching self-control, confidence, and responsibility. Punishment, on the other hand, is all about inflicting pain and practically has nothing to encourage nor teach but focuses on past misbehaviour. Why then punish? Well, correcting a child takes a lot of patience, empathy, creativity
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