Children on Destiny – Diary of LagosMums I believe in having real conversations with young people especially my children. Children are forming their views on the world on a daily basis and through seemingly unimportant questions they are constantly framing their views. When a child asks a question it is a natural and perfect window […]
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Who Said Artists are your Child’s Role Model? The news has recently been filled with reactions to a mum sharing a video of her daughter’s dancing. The girl was clad in skimpy clothing not appropriate at her age (or perhaps for any age), the music she was dancing to and the dance moves she was displaying were
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The year 2015 is wrapping to a close and it is time for the year in review. Infact for some people you would say the year is already over with just a few hours left in 2015. Before we start to talk about the plans, goals and resolutions for the new year. It is important
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In the last Diary of Lagosmums post IÂ talked about how we all need to have a beauty regime and my shocker after getting a facial. Majority of us are dealing with makeup (the good and the bad effects), diets that do not help the skin, wrong products and poor makeup removal regime. I promised to
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Most of us ladies are eager to start wearing makeup, we start to experiment at some point between high school and University. We are all facing the beauty regime in some way or the other. Age, puberty, pimples, acne, oily T- zone sends us looking for various products and regimes to try and keep our
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The one thing many people complain about in Lagos is the lack of customer service, from the surly cashier to the uninterested store assistant. It is a common refrain that customer service and Lagos do not go in the same sentence. I recently had the opposite that showed me great customer service exists in Lagos. I recently
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We all know the popular saying that says put your best foot forward, I choose to rephrase it a bit and say put a foot forward. Why do I say this? Do you perhaps have a vision or a plan that you might wonder where it came from? It comes from your unique DNA that
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Whenever we do travel over the summer I am surprised by the variety of toys that the children are exposed to which results in them feeling they just have to have the newest toy or games. There is always a new invention, instead of a regular helicopter now there is the roller copter (a helicopter
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Diary Adventures of LagosMums: DALM | Women In Business There are many women in business, either as entrepreneurs, career women or business women. I think that every woman is in business somehow, even women who are not in your typical 9 to 5. The internet and social media provide very low barriers to entry, anyone can have a
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Diary Adventures of LagosMums: DALM | Our Mums Don’t Spend Time with Us The other day I was in more of a playful mood than usual – it was just one of those highly positive days. I guess it was rather obvious because mini-me then used that as an opportunity to get a request in.
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