Many factors, past and present, contribute to the dysfunctional state of the Nigeria educational system . These include the failures by the government, students, teachers, and education institutions to live up to their different responsibilities, to create an effective learning environment, to foster productive teaching methods, to breed effective and enthusiastic teachers and to produce […]
I was told by my parents that when I was 9 months old, my 10 years oldest sister took the responsibility of taking care of me because my mother was away for some months to complete her graduate studies. Even though there was a nanny to help, my sister had a paradigm shift in responsibility […]
Parental pressure was one of the most challenging encounters I had as a school administrator. This pressure comes in different forms and ways, the commonest being the pressure by parents for their children to make academic progress beyond their age. Parents oftentimes feel out of the loop about their children’s academic headway, which makes them […]
Raising children does not only entail providing for their needs, teaching them how to walk, talk, and doing the regular remote parenting pattern. It also inculcates the provision of the right knowledge, attitude, skills, and resources needed for children to try new things on their own and develop some level of independence in their world. […]
Mental health in adults has gained more publicity than mental health in children. Children experience behavioural problems at a certain time in their age. Some of these are results of developmental changes, family problems, environmental influence, and so on. To some children, this gets resolved with time, but to some, it degenerates to mental health […]
Parents, you can not prepare the future for your children. You can only prepare them for the future. In our previous articles, we have written so well on parenting styles, the risks, the consequences, and the devastating effects of raising irresponsible children. Over indulgence is the most effective way of raising ill mannered children. It […]
Before I started writing this article, I first thought about how inherently gendered we are as human beings. I thought about some families, especially very influential ones who have only girls or only boys as children. I thought about how they must have felt, not having to achieve the illusive “perfect” gender combination. I realized […]