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Teenagers
Parenting tweens and teenagers
How Instagram is Bad for Teenagers Mental Health
As a parent of teenagers, you have most likely wondered if Instagram or other social media platforms could be bad for your teenager’s mental health. But without any real data or research, and with all the varying information about the real effect on children and teens; most parents are left trying to figure out how…
Puberty and your Child: How Parents can help the Right Way
The goal of the International Adolescent Health Week, is for all parents, teachers, advocates, and caregivers focus on the health and well-being of our adolescents. The theme this year is “Adolescent Resilience in the face of a Pandemic”. An IGLive discussion was held on Monday, March 22nd, 2021, themed; Preparing Children for Puberty: what parents…
How to Hack the New Normal in Parenting and Screen Time Management
Every parent wants to know how to hack the new normal in parenting and screen time management. Whether you were a parent who had a plan or not when it came your child’s use of screens and going online; the pandemic and ensuing lockdown changed so many of the pre-pandemic screen time rules in most…
Social Media Affects Our Brains: Learn How to Immediately Take Action
You might have heard a lot about Social Media and how it affects our brains! Now, whether it is a myth or a fact; there are several things you can do to immediately take action and protect yourself from the negative influences. According to neuroscience scientific discoveries, in the last 15 years, social media has become…
Parents and Sharenting: 5 Important Things You Need To Know
When it comes to Parents and Sharenting, let us discuss 5 important things parents need to know. Did you know that By the age of five, many children will have had 1,500 photos of them shared online? But what happens when they grow up? We are finding out that not every child appreciates having had…
4 Valuable and Important Life Lessons Learnt by a Gen Z
As a member of Gen Z, there were some valuable and important life lessons I learnt from the 7th Annual LagosMums Parenting conference. The conference was very enlightening for me. There were many takeaways and things to learn from. But more importantly, it was amazing to see parents and adults gain a better understanding of…
What Age Does Mental Health Illness Show Up?
On one hand, mental health is the overall wellness of how you think, regulate your feelings and how you behave. On the other hand, Mental illness or mental health disorder is defined as patterns or changes (in ones thinking, feeling or behaviour) that disrupt a person’s ability to function. They are conditions that affect a…
How Social Media can Encourage Beauty Sickness
We have always been fascinated by the beauty and desire to be beautiful is a basic instinct. So what is so different today and how can social media encourage beauty sickness? The difference is the immense pressure to change how you look to fit in. At the core, it is the interactivity and connectedness of…
A Child’s Social Media Behaviour can Affect their Future
Could your child’s Social Media behaviour affect their future in any way? Most people use social media to connect with others and to share how they feel on a daily basis. Especially for young adults and teenagers; they share almost all feelings online. However, it is important that as we raise digital citizens; we are…