Nigeria’s future and infact the future of every nation, depends largely on the wellbeing of it’s children and young people. On this note, children are recognized and celebrated on Children’s day, a day set aside to honor children and the young people. Thus, pre schoolers, primary and secondary school pupils are given a day off […]
Inevitably, the physical environment of children influences their developmental outcomes. Even before birth, exposure to toxins or substances can impact a child’s physical development and cause low birth weight, premature birth or long term medical disorder. After birth, a lot of factors can stimulate a child’s development which may affect their personality on the long […]
Teaching children to develop an awareness and healthy perceptive of money is an important part of parenting. It makes them to understand money, value spending and develop gratitude. It resists entitlement tendencies, greed and selfishness. It lays the foundation of careful and responsible money management in the future. It is very important therefore, to encourage […]
The need to battle toxic masculinity and to foster more happy homes in the future, necessitated this topic. Raising children, male or female, is never smooth sailing. Parents are advised to have a vision in mind, just like they do in their careers or in business ventures. Families should know what they want, things that […]
Over the years, this topic has been much debated by many scholars, teachers and parents. Again, there is a similar discussion about what to do with very intelligent children, whether to keep them in same class with their age mates or to enrich them with special programs or to put them in special schools or […]
I saw the video of that Christland girl’s mother online; you know, as a mother, I felt sad for her. Especially when I read that they suspended her daughter.But something in me said, “Ammann, the children we are raising these days are “wiser” than us their parents. I said ‘wiser’ because that is what they […]
A friend once told me that whenever her mother advices her, she’ll be doubting if actually she was conceived through sex. She said to me that she sees her mother as a virgin because of how she talks and acts especially in sex related matters. She practically sees her mother as a saint! A lot […]