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Category: Family
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International Day of Families 2020
Happy International Day of Families everyone!
15th of May every year is set aside and recognized by the United Nations as Internation Day of Families. This is to promote the importance of a healthy and well-balanced family. Continue reading “International Day of Families 2020”
Pride in the Home
WISDOM FOR LIVING
As the saying goes, PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL.
The consequences of pride in a marriage or relationship could be irreversible. If someone tells you that he/she has a perfect marriage, just know right away that he/she is a great liar.
Couples fight and fight badly for that matter, though it is not expected of a true Bible-believing Christian to stay fighting or disagreeing; but it’s the ability to revise ones stand, communicate with respect, and be honest with each other, that determines the survival of any relationship.
If you remove pride and arrogance in your marital relationship, the marriage is already 90% promising, stable, and peaceful. And can thus, stand the test of time.
Invest in your marriage through giving, talking and compromising here and there. Your business as a stakeholder should be what to do to make your home peaceful and stable for you, your spouse, and your children’s enjoyment.
Stop running to 3rd parties who equally have their own challenges they are probably hiding and managing. You may end up getting nothing positive or helpful from such friends, family members, church/mosque members, and colleagues to whom you are exposing or trading what should be the solved within the confines of your home.
A broken home is like war. No party goes uninjured. Each party goes with an injury they nurse for the rest of their lives. That is the reality. Whichever party claims unaffected/uninjured is a chronic liar, chronic pretender, and an unrepentant soul, l mean he/she is stone-hearted.
Such a person has no idea of what a good home should be. He/she is ignorant of the positive impact of the unbroken relationship on the home itself, the community, the church/mosque congregation, and the society at large. No amount of success in life could compensate for failure at home.
Ensure that your home is not scattered. Repair it now before it is too late. If your home is experiencing separation now, ensure that you shed your pride and compromise to arrest it from drifting to a broken home.
Stop narrating your home affairs around to seek sympathy. Most people you have taken your story to, and are supporting you, are in their own homes, keeping their homes intact, sympathising with you, while you are already out of your own home. Pride in the home can break it. Be humble to resolve your differences.
AVOID BROKEN HOME AT ALL COST AS YOU BUILD YOUR FAMILY…
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A Parent’s Influence
A father’s or a parent’s influence goes to the fourth generation after him. Whitney Houston’s parents Emily and John Houston divorced when she was at kindergarten.
And together with her lover, Bobby Brown, Whitney smoked crack in the presence of their 5-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina.
At 22, Bobbi died of drug abuse. Her mother Whitney died at 48 on similar grounds. Great careers and more importantly, great lives lost due to weak fatherhood.
While there is little we can do about our ancestors, there is something that we can do about your descendants. One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is that he hasn’t completed being a boy. To be in your children’s’ memory tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.
Having children doesn’t make you a father. Raising them does. Because a parent’s influence cannot be underestimated.
There are many who were raised up in unstable families. But didn’t pass it on to our children. We don’t have to fight in the presence of our children. We can choose to shield their emotions from our disputes as adults. To a large extent, you are a product of your early relationships.
Unstable parents create insecure children. Stable parents raise stable children. Children need affection (hugs,), attention (listening) and affirmation (positive words), every day. When a man loves his wife, it creates security and stability. The best gift a father can give his children is to love their mother. Children learn how to handle feelings, loses, failure and conflicts at home.
Regrettably, parenting can neither be delegated nor suspended for a while as we work for the ring of fame and fortune. The growth of children is irreversible. As a young tree, it takes the bends directed by the gardener, so is the life of a child. You can’t shape it in adulthood; you can’t pick it from where you left after you reach the top in your career pursuits.
It’s always easier to model young boys than to rehabilitate grown-up men.
If you invest in your child, you don’t have to invest for your child.
Children require presence not presents. No amount of gifts and meeting financial obligations can replace your personal presence. Any written will can be torn in a few years after the demise of the writer of the will. The only sure inheritance that you can leave behind is the investment you make in your child, not for your child.
More important, We also have to pray for our children against peer pressure and external influence.
What influence do you (intend to) have on your children? How will it affect their future? Leave comments below the post to share your thoughts.
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Marriage is Not for Small Boys
I used to interpret the saying “Marriage is not for small boys” to mean small boys in terms of age. Until I visited a female mentor that has been in marriage for 47 years. Continue reading “Marriage is Not for Small Boys”
When Babies Start Talking
When will my baby start talking? Most parents are anxious about this…
They already hear you talk from when they were in the womb.
The first thing babies do when born is they cry loudly. Except the baby has a tongue-tie.
With time they are able to express themselves more. Just like crawling turns walking. When babies start talking they go from babbling gibberish, they begin mouthing meaningful words like ‘dada’ or ‘mama’
A baby may use either verbal or non-verbal queues. or even both to express happiness or discomfort.
Usually, girl babies start talking before male babies.
Newborns can recognize the mother’s voice.
From 1 month to when they are 4 months they can smile and cry, turn their heads when they hear sounds or follow movements.
From five to eight months they can play efficiently with toys and their monosyllabic speeches become disyllabic. They coo, ooh, and aah very well.
From nine to twelve months most kids can call dada or mama already.
Some babies may delay their first real words but can and will surprise parents when they do speak. They may also be delayed language development. But you can visit the doctor for assurance.
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