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NFA KARGBO : COMING TO TERMS WITH FATHERHOOD
Behind every young child who believes himself is a parent who believed first- Matthew Jacobson Last Sunday, people from all around the world celebrated Fathers day. This is fast becoming a popular holiday. A day set aside to honour and recognize men who are playing a leading role in nurturing and raising children. Fathering is a role most men ignore, for many their duty stops at being a sperm donor. The role of parenting is left squarely with the mother. This trend has caused a severe breakdown in family life, most men grow up with little or no male influences and they move on to creating the same pattern in…
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KAMA ALIEU MALADOR: BRINGS YOU THE ADVENTURES OF A STAY AT HOME MOTHER
If you had told me that I was going to be a stay at home mother when I was younger I would have probably laughed out loud. From as young as my teen years, I knew I wanted to become a lawyer. I was always very argumentative and opinionated then so I knew it would be a great fit. Little did I know that at nineteen, I would be married to a total stranger! Well fifteen years later, here I am a wife and a mother of 4. Life comes at you so fast. Well that has turned out to be the recurring theme song of my life. My husband…
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5 THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A PEDIATRIC DOCTOR IN SIERRA LEONE
`The highest rates of child mortality are still in Sub-Saharan Africa—where 1 in 9 children dies before age five, more than 16 times the average for developed regions (1 in 152). Under-five mortality rate in Africa (per 1,000 live births) declined from 163 in 1990 to 100 in 2011'.-USAID Most statistics around healthcare in Africa borders between two words dire or depressing, all the same we barely give relevance to the truth. Most times we obliterate these facts with trivial issues, that bear no significance to the problems we have to solve as a continent. Maybe this in a way is our coping mechanism, what an interesting way to live. Despite the struggles around child mortality in…
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ATTENTION PARENTS: THESE TWO THINGS WILL MAKE YOU MASTER PARENTING
My childhood was exciting, I had parents who were middle-aged and were liberal for the most part. Nonetheless been in a nuclear family setting gave me a guided view, with set intentions and a narrow perspective on life. Everything was pretty much black and white. I relied heavily on emotional support from family, teachers and friends. Words of affirmation, triggered the best in me. The good thing was I found great escape in reading about different worlds, cultures and philosophies. At a young age, I learnt about other children from different backgrounds, orphans, children living in deprived communities and those from dysfunctional families. This opened up my eyes to another…
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I COUNT IT ALL JOY
I toddled down, hurrying off to the sweet aroma from the boiling pot in the kitchen, for a second I felt a sweet breeze, the next minute I was at the bottom of the stairs. An excruciating pain hit me, all I could hear was a gentle hum, a child’s laughter and then the sun rays caressed my skin. I was lying on the floor, face down. Something protruded from my enlarged belly. I could feel something sharp- a bone, I think it was his foot. I was close to term with my most precious bundle of joy and I had fallen off a flight of stairs. It was over…
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4 POTTY TRAINING HACKS THAT WILL RESTORE YOUR SANITY
Dear Reader,Am I allowed to say that potty training is high up on the list of every parent’s worst nightmare. I have gotten endless questions as to what the best method is. People are increasingly frustrated when it doesn’t go as well as they expect. The children become unhappy with the process. The whole family is weighed down by it all.In between old wife’s tales and science we have tons of information on potty training, sometimes leaving us more confused.I have decided to share a bit of what I have learnt because my anchor job as a caregiver to children has blessed me with thousands of poop experiences! I have…
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD PARENT?
Finding out that one is about to be a parent is most times greeted with great happiness and excitement and in other times the parent is petrified or is in a state that makes Him or Her think they are unfit to be guardians of the world’s greatest treasure. Conception itself is a miracle where one sperm wins the race to fertilise a particular egg! It has been proven that no two people are the same even Identical twins have subtle differences in their genetic makeup that makes them uniquely them and hence special in their own right. Babies are by far the greatest treasures one that has been destined…
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ENTERTAINING LITTLE HEARTS
Our world has become very stressful with lots of things and people demanding for our attention and time. Amidst all this family members are left with few outlets to relax and have fun. It’s Imperative that we strive to find ways to unwind and relax as this will help increase our productivity levels. The nature of our jobs contradicts the very essence of healthy life-styles as adults are expected to work an average of 40 hours a week, taking up much of our day with little time left for housework, family time is somehow abandoned or very rare. This trend is replicated with our children as we are bent on…
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BATTLING YOUR CHILD’S WORST ENEMY
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