Tag: parenting
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Let us EndBadParenting – By Francis Ewherido
I coined this title after the EndBadGovernance protests which started on August 1, 2024. I have no problem with any protest, strike or activity towards a better Nigeria as long as we avoid unnecessary shedding of blood. Too many Nigerians have died in cold blood and it’s not good.
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Children’s Day: How to make parenting easier
Some parents in Karu Local Government Council of Nasarawa State, have advised fellow parents to maintain close friendship with their children for easy and fruitful parenting.
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Parenting: No democracy in my home – By Hope Nwawolo
While visiting at my younger sister’s home outside the country some years back, l was impressed with how she disciplined her little children who ordinarily would have reached for the phone to call up 911 on their mum. But no, they dared not because her slogan was, ‘’there is no democracy in my home’’. According…
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Chrisland’s Dubai Five and Our Digital Footprints – By Azu Ishiekwene
The debate about just how far astray today’s children have gone was sparked afresh by the juvenile sex video of students of Chrisland School, VGC, Lagos, who had gone for the World Schools Games in Dubai between March 8 and 14.
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Chrisland: Table Tennis star Funke Oshonaike speaks on parenting
Nigerian table tennis star and Olympian Funke Oshonaike has lambasted Nigerians for criticizing the mother of the 10 year-old female student of Chrisland schools involved in video sex in Dubai. Nigerians had bashed the girl’s mother for coming out public to blame the school over the now viral sex video
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Parental failure: Impetus for crimes, societal problems – By Michael West
Our society is in moral and spiritual quagmire largely due to the negligence and compromised disposition of parents towards the training of their children. From the cradle, parents are the moral compass, role models and counsellors-in-chief of their children.
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DNA, faithfulness, and parenting – Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
There must be something traumatic about a man going to family or public to declare that the kids whom he had all along assumed were his, are not his biologically because his wife had been unfaithful, had slept with and had been made pregnant by a man (or men) outside her marriage. It is…
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Duties of the husband – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido The husband is the head of the house. That makes him the leader of the family. A husband who is a good leader finds it easier to get the cooperation of his wife, not because he is the head of the house, but because the wife believes and buys into his leadership.…
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To flog, or not to flog – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido There is an ongoing debate on whether or not children should be flogged as part of parenting. The debate is necessitated by some recent developments. There was the 12-year-old girl in Enugu, whose back was lacerated by the parents with cane and possibly other objects. There was also the video of an…
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Saying boys will be boys is a lazy parenting strategy- Adekunle Gold
Nigerian singer, Adekunle Gold has advised parents to stop condoning wrongdoings from their male children on the basis that they are bound to be so. The ‘Pick Up’ singer, in a tweet, said being a parent comes with responsibility, hence parents should ensure they raise their children properly. “Boys will be boys’ is a…