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WORKING MOM’S DILEMMA
Feb. 17 | Me time versus time with the kids This past weekend I missed a chance to be pampered at a church women’s Valentine’s Day out in Notwane after a hectic week with loads of after hours meetings. In fact I missed pretty much everything...
AN ALTERNATIVE TO SPANKING
Feb. 10 | One of the major roles of a parent that I found absolutely intimidating about parenthood was the daunting responsibility to lay down the blueprint for the children’s behaviour through the parent’s behaviour during the formative...
SPANKING ON THE SPOTLIGHT
Feb. 3 | While a certain section of our society is agitating for corporal punishment to be applied much more liberally to misbehaving adults, our neighbours in South Africa are seriously lobbying to make spanking of children in homes a criminal offence. CAPTION:...
WRITING DOWN THE VISION
Jan. 27 | Mothers’ 2012′ resolutions for the children Recently as I accidentally flattened a toy on my driveway, it occurred to me that If I received one pula every time I asked my boys to pick up their toys , I’d probably be half-way...
PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Dec. 16 | Last week we carried two intriguing reports about two different men who were seeking to wriggle out of their parental responsibilities in two different interesting ways. MODEL DAD: Basketball superstar Dwyane Wade was named America's 2007 father of...
RAISING GRATEFUL CHILDREN
Dec. 9 | Breaking news: An expression of gratitude doesn’t just make the recipient happy and the giver civil, it actually improves health, resilience and emotional well- being, different studies by different psychologists have revealed. Good stuff, if you...
SHOPPING WITH CHILDREN
Dec. 2 | These past two weeks have been very busy for me on the home front with birthday parties to attend and gifts to buy. CAPTION CELEBRITY MOM: Melanie Brown (MEL B) was spotted shopping for a Christmas tree with her kids-Phoenix,11, Angel,3, and Giselle,...
HOUSEHOLD POWER DYNAMICS – WHOSE THE BOSS OF WHOM?
Nov. 25 | Who is the boss Power in very basic terms means the ability to control one’s environment, which of course, would translate into the ability to control the behaviour of other people too. And as parents,especially mothers many of who find themselves saddled...
STRENGTHENING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
Nov. 18 | On Tuesday we attended an exciting meeting called by the ministry of Education and Skills Development to launch a brilliant initiative to bring the industry closer to the children’s education. GRACE MUZILA: P.S ministry of education skills development The...
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
Nov. 11 | This week we received a heart breaking letter from a devastated schoolboy writing to the High Court Registrar about what the judge’s decision to give his custody to his ‘mean’ uncle has done to his life. To say the 11-year- old boy has been traumatised...
BULLYING, A MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE
Nov. 4 | Last week we wrote about the need to know your child’s friends and the benefits thereof. A concerned reader wrote in and below is her response to that article and her experience with bullying, which seems to be rife in school, all the way from...
CONSIDER YOUR CHILD’S FRIENDS
Oct. 28 | I have had first-hand experience about a child being bullied and teased at school to the point where his health was put in danger by a bully who stuffed pieces of broken mattress in his nose. I did what I had to do to address the situation in the most...
TALK WITH US
Oct. 21 | This column began with the belief that mums and dads would be interested in reading about issues that affect them in their day to day lives as parents. Some colleagues felt that people would find parenting to be a bit of a boring subject, especially...
BRAGGING VERSUS MAKING A POINT
Oct. 14 | Writing a column on parenting can be a little tricky. You tell stories about children and being a mother yourself, you can’t run away from telling stories about your own children sometimes. And that is where the problem arises as writing about...
LITTLE MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE
Sep. 30 | Several years ago, as a young court reporter I followed a case of a 15- year- old boy who was convicted of rape and sent to prison. ON RAMPAGE: Young boys are out to terrorise our streets My heart broke for the boy because he was hardly a man when he ...
WHAT METTERS TO CHILDREN
Sep. 23 | Warmth or Wealth of a parent? My partner set me thinking last week with an article he sent me about a recent UNICEF research, which resulted in an analysis showing child well-being in the UK at the near bottom of a league of developed nations. FOOD...
PARENTING LESSONS I HAVE LEARNT SO FAR
Sep. 19 | With only two boys still in pre-school,I can’t quite pass for a veteran at the parenting gig, but after almost six years of full time motherhood, (no grannies in the village to dump the kids with)I have certainly learnt a few things in this field. CRYING...
THE WHY OF IT
Sep. 9 | why IN my house we seem to be on the edge of the great “Why?” abyss. And this my dear reader I recently learnt can be a bit daunting on a school day morning. Below is a typical conversation between my three- year -old son and myself when I was about...
PRESSURE PROOFING THE CHILDREN
Sep. 2 | Recently my God son came to visit us. He is a teenager with a great love love for shoes and fashion in general. On what was supposed to be a five-day trip but was cut short to three days, the boy brought at least five pairs of shoes. The day after...
