Child upbringing needs to be done with positive expectations. Children performing poorly, or reasoning, acting, or behaving badly should be taken as a human situation and addressed appropriately.

It is common in many societies to find parents and guardians addressing their children with tags, names and metaphors that suggest depravity, incapability, deficiency and diminution. In this article, we examine the effects of these negative attributions, especially about animal characters.

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper on 12th October, 2021. As the world markets ‘solutions to…

On the 11th of September every year the world celebrates the International First Aid day. This day allows a chance to examine the international and local uptake, growth and prospects in the field of Emergency Care and First aid. Though the concept ‘first aid’ is a familiar one, its content is indubitably not sufficiently known.

It a reasoned opinion that the world youth day should be the culmination of the effort invested throughout the year. This should also reflect in the respective jurisdictions, not mere paperwork, or stupendously written media fliers; but evidence of genuine tasks undertaken to help the society grow, and or to solve the problems that have persisted.

The first question we need to delve into is the nature of the problematic situation. Why do we use arms to resolve conflicts? Can we realistically end wars and silence the guns by 2020 as the AU’s Agenda 2063 looks forward to? Objectively, the reality of peace in the world today, which is indeed commonplace in literature, is still far from completion to a considerably great extent.

The celebration of a new beginning shoud not be a moment to celebrate passage of time, but rather of recalling and examining how we maximized the previous phase of the natural provision we call time.