There’s a question I’ve carried with me through more than two decades of working with families, and it’s one that many parents and educators quietly avoid: Is school really for every child? When a child struggles academically, our instinct is to look for someone to blame. We question the child’s ability. We question the parents. […]
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Nigeria has been grieving since last week, and so am I. Favour Agbro was 20 years old. A nursing student. A twin sister. A daughter. Like millions of young Africans, she dreamed of building something online — and when a popular content creator known as “Odogwu of Asaba” allegedly offered to train her to monetise
Growing up in the 80s and 90s, many of us remember a familiar midnight ritual: a parent’s footsteps in the hallway, a door easing open, a quiet check that all was well. There were no mobile phones then. No tablets glowing under blankets. And yet, they checked. Not every old parenting style is obsolete. I
It rarely starts with a slammed door. It starts with a shrug. A one-word answer. A teenager who used to tell you everything is now telling you nothing while telling a group chat everything. As a registered nurse, midwife, and mental health nurse, and as a mother, I have learned to watch for the quiet
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By Latifah Ajetunmobi | Parent & Teen Coach, Nurse, and Author. I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while. Today, at last, I can. The children of Oriire are home. After 56 days in captivity, the schoolchildren and teachers abducted from three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State have been
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If you have ever said the words “get off that phone” and watched a door slam in response, this one is for you. Most parents I coach are not short of love. They are short of language. They know something needs to be said about screens, social media, and the hours their teenager spends in
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Last Thursday, I read a news report and had to put my phone down. I sat in silence for a long time. Come closer. Let me tell you what I saw. The UK’s National Crime Agency announced that since October, they have identified more than 270 individuals linked to ONE online forum. Not a forum
There’s a version of your child you’ll never meet again. The one who climbed into your bed during thunderstorms. Who told you about every scraped knee, every playground betrayal, every small fear. That child trusted you with their whole inner world. And then, somewhere between 13 and 16, the doors started closing. Most parents panic
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International Widows’ Day was marked two days ago, on the 23rd of June. But a widow’s dignity was never meant to be a one-day concern, and the way a family treats its widows says more about that family than any tradition it claims to keep. When I wrote Beyond the Goat Pen, I did not
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You’ve tried taking the phone away. Maybe for an hour, maybe for the evening, maybe for a whole weekend after a particularly bad row. And maybe, like most parents, you found that it changed nothing except to make the atmosphere at home even worse. If confiscation worked, none of us would need anything else. The
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