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in Education and Academia, Environment & Climate, Parenting & Childcare, Pets and Animals, Travel and AdventureMaking It Vital For Children To Appreciate Nature
Think back to the first day you saw monkeys when you were a child or the first time they let you wander off alone when you went to visit your […] More
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Is your child a picky eater, or is it a feeding difficulty?
“My child is just a picky eater.” I’ve heard this sentence countless times, and sometimes it’s true. But sometimes what looks like “picky eating” is actually a feeding difficulty. The […] More
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in Community & Opinion, Family, Friends and Relationships, Parenting & Childcare, Self-help and InspirationNotes on Parenting from a 25-year-old overachiever
I love my parents. But like most parents, they made some fundamental parenting mistakes whose consequences I will spend much of my adult life painfully trying to reverse. Like most […] More
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A Love Note From My Hair
Growing up, I was constantly told by my mum that I had the worst hair of all my siblings. It is thinner and finer than the hair of all the […] More
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Open Letter to parents with pregnant teenagers in Uganda
Caption : Public Relations Association of Uganda (PRAU) and Uganda Police donate to teenage mothers at the Naguru Teenage Centre. Government of Uganda did not fail parents. They allowed pregnant […] More
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THE EAGLET LEAVES THE NEST – PART 1
Three weeks ago, our daughter Ayinza started going to daycare. She started by attending a 3-hr session. The plan was that she gradually gets used to the idea before she […] More
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ON FATHERHOOD AND THE TRAPS OF SOCIALIZED GENDER ROLES
On Tuesday, I walked into Café Javas at Oasis mall carrying my 10 month-old son in a baby carrier and ordered for a fruit platter. The gentleman who was attending […] More
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A Week Later: Hospital Blues
I had a terrible experience at the Toronto Pearson airport the day I landed; alone, eight months pregnant and distraught having lost my handbag containing my debit cards. The airport […] More
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WHEN LOVE DIES LIFE CONTINUES, BUT LIFE WITHOUT LOVE IS NOT WORTHY LIVING – PART 4
Part 3 | I quickly get pregnant it’s not a struggle. We are happy. I remember feeling love and excitement for this new baby. Time flies and it had been six […] More
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A GIFT OF GOD TO CALL OUR OWN
Our very own Netanya, This photo here was taken on the 13th of May, 2019 at 9:04 pm. Your mother and I had just checked into our hotel for what […] More
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#MuwadoLoveLetter20 Every Day New
My dear Jovie, It’s just like you to get me to indulge in this kind of stuff… who still writes Valentine’s letters? But a bet’s a bet – even though […] More
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In The Beginning: A Hope That Endures
Time Check: 4 pm or thereabouts Day: Sometime in November 2013 Place: Drug Shop in Headingley, Leeds I walked up and down the pregnancy section of the drug store. It […] More
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in Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Parenting & Childcare, Self-help and InspirationTHE EAGLET LEAVES THE NEST – PART 2
Everything was going as we had hoped. Ramya had enjoyed the three trial short nursery sessions, much to our relief. We had really worried that as a “lockdown child” who […] More
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Unmet Expectations of Boys without Fathers
It hurts when the sharpest memories you have about your Papa are the bad ones. It also hurts when you don’t have any memory of him at all. This week […] More
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COVID-19 Lockdown, a Great Opportunity to Put to Use your Parenting Skills
World Health Organization (WHO) made its first declaration of the outbreak of coronavirus as a pandemic when the number of confirmed cases with COVID-19 were 165,000 globally since it emerged […] More
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In The Beginning: When The World Was Our Canvas
Time check: 2am.Day: 18th December 2011Place: Wedding Night Suite (not to be confused with the honeymoon suite. At least not yet). We were about 13hrs into our marriage. My freshly […] More
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A THEOLOGY ABOUT HAIR
Last Sunday, my big boy Thabo went to Sunday school class, and the teacher called him out loud and told him, “Please, by next Sunday, before you come to church, […] More
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