A 15-year-old teenage boy from Chicago, DeShawn Isabelle, sexually assaulted, robbed, and beat a 41-year-old woman on a train, and thought he got away with the...
Yesterday I was appalled by an episode I watched on Judge Judy. The plaintiff, a woman had her teenage son as witness. In what was otherwise...
There is a group of people I admire so much. This particular set of people are good psychological case studies. They are the children from broken...
This one is for all the parents out there. Do you really know what kinds of messages your children are conveying when they chat online using...
My daughter is brilliant. I realized that she is the paragon of intellectual excellence from my first moments with her, just after she was born. Most...
I watched the video of the nanny abusing the baby with so much pain in my heart, and all through the day that was all I...
Aunty Bella is our agony aunt column on BellaNaija. We launched this column in the early days of BN and periodically feature issues sent in by...
I sincerely lay no claims to being more knowledgeable than anyone, but I do confess that better than I did yesterday, last year and a decade...
Just like many others, the story of how a young boy killed his father under very obscene circumstances made me cringe with fright and repulsion. {Click...
Dear future daughter, I have been waiting all my life to have someone like you. I want to call you beautiful, but ‘beauty’ is not all...
Society is changing; and with it, lifestyle and culture evolves. It would be extremely myopic to imagine that certain aspects of our lives would change and...
Ever tried to imagine one day your young child or relative comes home and asks you (without bating an eyelid) what intercourse means. What will your...
Last Christmas when my friend visited with her daughter, she came to the conclusion that I do not like children. For some reason, it wasn’t a...
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...
My best friend and I decided to take a trip out of town. On the day, we got on the train and settled into a booth....
“Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”-Chuck Palahniuk The joy of parenting lies within its seeming perennial...
In the first quarter of this year, I decided to put together a list of the funniest videos on YouTube in 2013 for the BN audience....
A few weeks ago, actor, Will Smith and his son, Jaden had an interview with Metro US, New York. The talked about family, social media, their...
Mondays can be such a drag sometimes . If only every week would be like last week when the week started on Wednesday. I mean, that’d be...
When I was younger I truly believed I was adopted because I felt my mother was the most wicked woman on earth. I knew that everything...
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