If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It is very sad, disheartening, horrendous and heart breaking to see the increase in knife crimes and deaths of teenagers in our society today. Young lives being wasted just like that. The pain and trauma families that have lost loved [...]
At different stages in our journey through life we face pressures from parents, peers, work or family. How do you deal with peer pressure? Our ability to deal with peer pressure depends on our values, character, vision and life ambitions.
While parents have the privilege to guide and steer their children in the [...]
It is important that we do all that we can to encourage the faith walk of our children. We cannot walk that walk for them, but we can certainly cheer them along and help to remove stumbling blocks.
There are many ways in which we can do this, but I would like to mention just [...]
Your parents are devout Christians, dedicated and pious. They are well respected in the community, in church and amongst friends. Perhaps they are leaders in church sometimes are given the opportunity to preach the word. In the eyes of everyone they are the perfect family.
Happily married with children and you happen to be one [...]
Are you a teenager or do you have teenage children, relatives or friends? This age group is significant in the growth and development process of an individual. At this stage in life, puberty is experienced and ones character is either made or broken.
There are folks that dread children in this age group because of the [...]
Being a child can be fun, no bills to pay, hurray! You don’t have to think about where the next meal would come from, you only need to know when. Gifts are expected at Christmas, parties and more presents at birthdays, new cloths for every occasion and perhaps wind parents up every now and [...]
Puberty defined in The Penguin Encyclopedia is ‘the period of change from childhood to adulthood characterized by the attainment of sexual maturity and full reproductive capacity’. It begins earlier in girls (age 11) than in boys (about age 13) and lasts between 3 – 5 years.
At this stage it is very crucial that parents educate [...]
God created man and said everything was good. His command to man was to replenish the earth and have dominion over all creation. Marriage was instituted by God when he created Eve out of Adam and brought her to him in the Garden of Eden.
Procreation and replenishment of the earth implies sex and intimacy. The [...]
One of the TV programs I take keen interest in watching is CSI – Crime Scene Investigation. Apart from the gruesomeness of the murders being investigated, it is a brilliant program. The perpetrators of the crimes always get caught by the mere intelligence of the investigations. My devotion to this TV series made me ponder [...]
Poetry was one of the subjects we had in primary school. As far I can remember, our poetry class was always exciting and one we looked forward to. Poems were given as home work and we looked forward to the next class to see who could recite them correctly. Two of the poems I can [...]
