We parked our car, as directed by a security man, in a car parking lot in a shopping mall one hot afternoon. A movement in the car parked beside ours caught my attention. A cute toddler stood across from the gear, leaning on the steering wheel. She...
One of the reasons why I have so much sympathy for children is the fact that they are innocent, helpless souls. Imagine the fact that a newborn baby is a tabula rasa. Tabula rasa is a theory that postulates that the human mind at birth is a blank...
In most parts of the world, children start school formally at about the age of five. In some other countries, especially in Africa, they start one form of schooling or the other right from about the age of two. The average student, therefore, starts...
Positive, clear, and undistorted communication is the key to a healthy relationship between individuals. The exciting and easy-flowing conversation is the bedrock of building intimacy and establishing connections between people. Communicating...
Tobi, aged 6, returns from school, shrugs off his school bag, barely stops to remove his school uniform, reaches for the TV remote, and flops on the rug in front of the TV to watch his favorite cartoon show. We live in a culture overwhelmed with all...
Whether children maximize their potential as they journey through life is determined largely by the environment in which they grow up. This environment is created substantially by parents through the parenting style adopted in bringing up each child...
We all face disappointment and loss in life. Children do too. While adults might have a more developed mental capacity to understand the crisis they are going through, the same is not true for children. Your major goal as a parent should be to...
When it comes to the education of your children, one thing you don’t want to do is leave things to chance. This is because if the pendulum swings negatively, you are going to be involved in an intense struggle to help them find their feet. In the...
Many parents desire a close connection with their children. They want to understand their children, and they want their children to understand them. In short, they naturally desire intimacy with their offspring but do not know how to go about it. It...
When something is described as insidious, it means it is a thing that does harm in a secret, stealthy, and gradual manner. This is exactly how bad parenting affects children. It is always a mistake when parents look out only for external signs of...