By Laju Iren My daughter is two years old today. It seems like yesterday when she came out face-first out of my body looking absolutely nothing like me, despite our nine-months of bonding, and several hours of labour filled with blood, sweat and tears. Motherhood has been a gruelling experience, but a truly most rewarding one. It such an honour…
Our discourse today is Self-esteem, as it relates to our children and their academic performance. Self esteem simply defined, is an individual’s sense of value or worth, or the extent to which a person values, approves of, appreciates, prizes, or likes himself or herself. Summarily, it is a favourable or unfavourable attitude towards the self. Before going any further, I…
Push! I remember it like it was yesterday. After hoping she would arrive at 38 weeks, and just plain tired of being pregnant, the little princess decided to arrive at exactly 40 weeks. I had been experiencing contractions the night before, but now, things were beginning to get real-painfully real. No one can explain the pain of labour to…
By Laju Iren Don’t read this if you’re pregnant. This post wasn’t written for everyone. But for those for whom it was written, it was necessary that it be written. One in four pregnancies end in a miscarriage. But when it happens to you, you don’t feel like one in four. But one-and alone-in the world. It seems like you’re…