pdf_20230507_140931_0000 (1) EDITOR: OLUSEYI ELIZABETH ODUDIMU Parenting and child’s mental health Parenting Parenting practices can have a significant impact on a child’s mental health. Positive parenting practices that promote emotional warmth, responsiveness, and consistency have been associated with better mental health outcomes for children. Emotional warmth refers to parents’ ability […]
EDITOR: OLUSEYI ELIZABETH ODUDIMU pdf_20230507_140931_0000 (1) What does it mean to be a parent? Parenting and child’s mental health Being a parent means assuming the responsibility of raising and caring for a child. It involves providing for the child’s physical, emotional, and psychological needs, as well as offering guidance and support as the child […]
The difference between emotional hunger and genuine love, and the possible resolutions to defy emotional hunger In the previous article, I have already written about maternal love as an essential component in the development of emotional life. This article will outline the difference between emotional hunger and genuine love, and the possible resolutions to defy […]
The Connection Between Emotional Hunger and Maternal Love By Oluseyi Elizabeth Odudimu Emotional Eating (EE) as over-eating, irrespective of satiety, and in response to emotional states that are typically negative. In contrast to physical hunger which is a response to body signal when hunger sets in, those that experience emotional hunger are driven […]
A happy man is a right thinking man. He tends to handle difficult situations in a better way than others. He knows that feeling upset with some things in life, especially things that one can hardly do anything to ameliorate does not worth it. The choice to be happy or sad is up to you […]
Today is World Savings Day. World Savings Day is also known as World Thrift Day. It is celebrated to educate people on the benefits of savings and to have them move the money they have in their vaults at home to bank accounts. It was established by the World Society of Savings Banks in […]
As a father of two school-going children, it breaks my heart to read about children being sexually abused in schools by supposedly trusted authorities! The idea of someone molesting your child is terrifying for any parent (unless the parent is the child molester, which is 37% of the time). The pain, fear, and […]
While schools are pulling out all the stops to welcome new and old students to another academic session, some parents are already losing sleep on how to balance their children’s last term’s school fees and also take blood, sweat and tears to pay fees for the coming session. From all indications, many parents have been […]
I have observed with utter dismay a particular trend in some places in Nigeria. It is a situation where fathers neglect their kids only to their mother’s care. These kids may not get proper feeding, morals, education and any other thing that will make such child excel in life due to the negligence of their […]
Recently, I read a post by someone on a Facebook group I am privilege to moderates asking whose responsibility it is to teach sex education – parents or teachers? Many who offered comments justified comprehensive sex education being taught in schools and the defense of sexual rights for school children. I am afraid this stand […]