“When the mother transits perhaps the highest that can happen to the children is to die from food starvation or maltreatment from new step mothers but with the death of a father, children born into glory are stripped off their powers into a life of penury.” On a bright sunny morning in the month of June while bathing my less than two months old baby, an unknown number was trying to reach me on my mobile phone. I couldn’t answer immediately because my hands were still wet but the…
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Let The School Child Breath, By Dorcas Sanni Ojelabi
The teacher of Amanda in K.G one at barely two (years of age) is already convincing the parents to allow her be taken in extra lesson till 4pm. Many Nigerian Parents, caught up in the relentless hustle of life often referred to as the “rat race” (popularised by Robert Kiyosaki’s book Rich Dad Poor Dad), see early schooling as a way to free up time constraints and a competitive social climate. Also with vivid cases of children who through sound education brought their families out of poverty, a…
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