Positive Parenting

By Dickson Tumuramye Delegated parenting is a current trend that is slowly increasing in our society especially among the corporate class and busy business parents. It may not come intentional but just know that around 6 out of 10 children in your neighborhood are not necessarily being raised by biological parents. Some children are being raised by technology and media even when they have parents in the same house staying together. With access to social media and digitalized televisions in our homes, our children are left to be entertained by such devices. Because most mothers are “busy” trying to make ends meet with a lot of demands at home; family upkeep, school fees/tuition, other basic needs, among others, they leave home early to work and come back late. The children are left in the mercies of the house helps or relatives/other caregivers. You can guest how many nannies have child upbringing skills and can surely help in proper holistic child development. Some of...

By Dickson Tumuramye The S.6 vacation is always the longest that students get. But some spend much of it just relaxing at home, yet there is much they can do to benefit from the holiday if they take on a training program and acquire skills. This can either be on a voluntary basis or taking on a job where they can earn. But where they cannot get a formal job, children can be placed somewhere for work informally and learn a lot. Today we will focus on volunteerism. This can also cut across to those who have graduated but have not yet gotten jobs. Doing voluntary work this holiday is better than staying home doing nothing. Volunteerism will help your child gain not only working experience but also provide him/her with the opportunity to develop key employability skills such as teamwork, leadership, office management, communication, customer care, problem-solving, negotiation, organisational, time management, record keeping, which recruiters search for. It is also one of the gre...