Raising Financially literate children starts with you, today 14th March 2016 marks the start of Global Money Week with the theme “Take Part: Save Smart” GMW is a celebration, with local and regional events and activities aimed at inspiring children and youth to learn about money, saving, creating livelihoods, gaining employment, and becoming an entrepreneur…
Tag: raising children
While Raising Empowered Girls Do Not Forget the Boys
While Raising Empowered Girls do not forget the Boys Raising the girl child has become something that seems to need its own type of strategy. You want to raise a child who is confident, who knows that she can be anything that she wants to be. A girl who is not limited by her gender…
LM Mum of the Month: Omoronike Bello-Adepoju
Meet our LM Mum of the Month: Omoronike Bello-Adepoju Our LagosMums of the Month series explores frank questions with LagosMums on motherhood, their philosophies on life among other things. We always learn when we read someone else’s story and they share their experiences with us. Meet Omoronike Bello, Mum of one and a baby on…
Where Is The Innocence of Our Children
Once featured on Larry King Live was the review of a ‘Baby Pageant’ – a beauty pageant for young girls. The participants were from 3 months to about 7 years old and they had to undergo all the beauty therapy preparations adults would go through, polishing themselves up for a contest. With the increase in…
Age Appropriate Chores For Children
Tilewa is a 17 year old in University and she cannot wash her clothes or make her bed. This issue did not just pop up at 17 years old, it started earlier at home from the age of 5. It is never too early to start children on the road of being independent adults. Introducing…
Where are Your Manners? Raising Polite Children
“Where are your manners?” said the mother of a young boy coming out of the supermarket. This is a question on all our lips as parents, when it comes to the behaviour of the young children today. It appears as if manners like, politeness, respect, kindness and consideration have been thrown out of the window. How do we raise polite…
Pressure To Look Good Affects Children
We might think that the pressure to be cool and to look good does not affect children. Recent research from the University of Sussex psychologists suggests that the pressure to be cool and look good does affect children and is actually bad for them. The world we live in is a world of having more, looking good…
Raising Children based on Scripture
There are several ways to parent and there are several styles but I always like to look at raising children based on scripture for the best guidelines on parenting. Here are some that I would like to share. Guidance we are meant to direct our children on the right path, to teach them and encourage them…
Teach Them The Way They Should Go
It is important to pay particular attention to passing on key life-transforming principles to our children in their foundational years when habits are formed. Teach them the way they should go includes focusing on raising successful children and instilling life-long values in them and not just being focused on providing for their welfare and educational needs. If…
Diary Of A Lagos Dad – Dealing With Do What You Do
Dealing with Do What You Do The most challenging aspect of raising a toddler is the fact that at that age they are more “do what you do” people, rather than “do what you say”. Every attitude, gesture, habit, facial expression and utterance is promptly copied; whether you realize it or not. Most of the…