Positive Parenting

By Dickson Tumuramye It’s a trend for most private schools to have school vans that take learners from home to school and back daily during the school term. In fact, this arrangement of picking up and dropping off children eases a lot of transportation challenges for most parents. Even if you don’t have a car, your children can benefit from a van. If you are a busy person and have no time to take and pick up children from school, this solves your problem. They therefore make life easier. There are certain challenges I have observed with these school vans. There is always overcrowding in them. They can load so many children and exceed the capacity of the car. You will find a van that is meant to take 14 passengers is carrying over 30 children and this could be unsafe for the children’s health. I get so concerned about the time some schools pick up and drop children. Typically, a kindergartener leaves his or her home at 5:30am but reaches school at 7:30am. They leave school at 4p...

By Dickson Tumuramye We had birthday celebrations for my wife last week and we organized a surprise party for her. Our 3 children who are 11 years old and below were fully involved in planning and preparing for the day. It was a secret we hid from Mummy. Our children plan and present a list of things they need for such birthdays, and it is always challenging to keep them secret. But this time, I sat them down and told them about the surprise deal. I asked them to keep it to themselves which they did for the whole week. New ideas kept coming in and the way it is going to be done among others. As a result of the silence on D-day, their mother suggested that we do some shopping after church service so that the day does not feel like an empty one. I agreed with some suggestions and I also tried to avoid some in order not to insinuate anything. When we walked to the supermarket, our children did not order things as they always do. I was also shocked! There I realized that I was winning...

Dickson Tumuramye We thank God that our children are reporting back to school next week. There are some schools that have already reported, but the majority of schools have been waiting for the official date. Many parents do not have all the necessary school fees and requirements and there is no hope between now and the reporting date. We have schools where school fees have to be paid either in full or half. The rest they don’t want to know. Senior ones are starting soon and the requirements may be much yet you have many children you are struggling with in other classes. Don’t die of much pressure yet your children have to study. If you don’t have all the expected resources and you wanted your children in better schools, cut your coat to the size of the clothe you have. Take them to where your pockets are friendly and will allow everyone keep in school as the family affairs are also running well. Don’t put all the little resources on one child now and you fail to plan for ...