Your father still says kembe is for the heavenly race, and wearing fitted clothes is the same as kitting up for hellfire. What will you tell...
Your kids may be all grown-ups, married with kids of their own, but may still harbour certain resentments for things you did/said to them when they...
A lot of times, children want to love their parents genuinely and they want to be proud of them. But most times, they cannot help this...
Parenting in the 21st century is said to be one of the most researched subjects and for which content is readily available. One would think that...
Tantrums usually occur in children, but it's your duty as a parent to teach them how to express and communicate their needs. This is because, if...
Talents are the distinct inner qualities everyone possesses that make us feel most alive. They represent the potential to make our most meaningful contributions to life....
If you allow any man touch you, you will get pregnant. These were my mother’s words when I told her I had started my period. I...
Your three year old son throws a stone from the balcony of your two-storey building. The stone hit a neighbor on the head and injures him....
Being a parent is sometimes the best thing in the world, other times, it’s the worst. One moment you think you have it all figured out...
My first phone was a Sagem; it was black, with a little antenna. My dad gave to me when I was in Junior Secondary School two....
Nigerian mothers are the best… but truth be told, they can be very annoying. Growing up, there were surely moments when the way your mother coined...
My longtime friend and I had a long conversation the other day about how parents have guided their children down the wrong path in marriage. Yes,...
The truth is, a joke has to be funny. A witch has to know her broom; some things just have their code. A laid down ‘how’...
As a young girl, I remember that my Dad used to get us tickets to watch inter-school dramas and poetry shows organised by some private primary...
Quite simply, children need time. End of story. If more adults would honor this simply concept, our perception of children will take a positive turn. Time...
“Spare the rod and spoil the child” Anybody who was born in the 1980’s & early 1990’s can testify that their parents used the statement above...
Writing Monday Morning Banter used to be a lot of fun for me. It was light and easy; I didn’t have to worry about depth or pseudo-intellectuality. Just...
Bored out of my mind…sitting at home on Easter Sunday with all the festivities wearing out, I was thinking of something to do that required no...
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