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Modern Day Parenting: Which Style Do you Adopt? By Comfort Umoren-Olorunnisomo Photo credit: Medium.com Parenting is such a big deal. While some parents plan and adopt a particular style in raising their kids, others prefer free styling. Some parents inherited their parenting style from their parents. So the question becomes - Who taught you how to become a parent? Who taught the person who taught you and the person who taught the person who taught you? On what moral standard(s) and principles were these parenting styles built on? The most adopted parenting style is by trial and error. This may have a positive or damaging effect on the first child who in most cases is the first specimen in our experimental lab of parenting after which we get better. In this episode, we will be discussing the different parenting styles. Freedom and restrictions are two tools parents use in training their children. While these two are at different ends of the parenting pole, the ...

PRESERVING THE FUTURE TODAY   By Comfort Umoren-Olorunnisomo Photo credit: Virtual Globetrotting As the world protest and lament on the deteriorating value for human lives, the number of cases of rape, police brutality, racism, domestic violence and other forms of abuse keep increasing. While some blame it on bad government, others blame it on end-time or the devil. In all of this, one small but powerful component of the society where all of these may have started from and can contribute to curb these, has been overlooked – the FAMILY. The society is made up of families, parent(s) of each of these families has the right and opportunity to train and instil the values in their offspring. So the problem is, you can only give what you have. Some parents have (in)directly implanted racism, rape culture, violence, corruption and other vices into their children through their actions and words. Yes, the current state of things may not be solely pinned on the fami...