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

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

Some mornings are like that! Waking up to children getting set for school and at the same time quarreling over shoelaces. Whose shoelace is the old one and whose is the newer one? To think that the struggle was for the old lace was not just dazzling but alarming. You know, children can spring up

As a Parent, one of the times we don’t look forward to is “Teeth Brushing”. It’s either we have them spend unplanned hours in the bathroom, or we just have the house heated up with screams in the bathroom. There’s always something new to push away ‘Brushing time’. This particular morning I heard my daughter

First, there’s the need to tackle what “Friendship” means in this context. Though every Friendship is different, for most parent-child relationships, the general qualities expected are; mutual loyalty, respect, trust, honesty, open communication, active listening, and pure love. Imagine walking into a restaurant and the waiter receives your order with a very hostile attitude or

For me, Emotional abuse also means Psychological abuse and refers to the behaviours, speech, and actions of parents, caregivers, or other significant individuals in a child’s life that have a negative mental impact on the child. A Parent’s Story Things went well until I noticed a decline in my child’s academics. He’ll come back from

I sat in a circle of educators some weeks back and we tried to raise salient points on the decline of our education system here in Nigeria. One thing that struck us all was the fact that while the most recent years show a rapid increase in scores at the Basic Education Certification Examinations (BECE),