Groom your child, spouse’s talents
By Dickson Tumuramye Everyone grows with ambitions and dreams. Each one of us has something that we desired to become in the future. Some dreamed of studying and becoming engineers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, social workers among others. Most of the future dreams are inclined to formal education. Because of the colonial systems, we are trained to believe that every success can be attained through formal education. One must study harder, acquire a certificate in any profession, get a white-collar job, and start earning money. As a result, we were not taken through informal education, emphasizing developing a child’s livelihood skills and talents that enhance creativity and innovation. Everyone has unique abilities. These abilities which may be natural or through training or God-given, are what we call talents or gifts (these words will be used interchangeably in this article). There are so many things we do without necessarily learning them from class. I have seen many people who ar