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Training your child without whips: five alternatives to spanking your child.

Discipline in Nigeria has gotten off the trajectory of the actual purpose, this article is written to sensitize parents and people on alternatives to spanking children and how more effective they are  with lesser long term consequences. One thing we need to get right is the true definition of discipline, a lot of people exchange the thought of discipline for punishment (the form of making a person suffer for what he is done and not a correction process but a retribution for an act). Punishment is inflicting pain on a person because of a past behavior. Webster defines it as a form of pain or loss that serves as retribution, a severe, rough, or disastrous treatment while discipline is a form of teaching what behavior is best for a child or person, a way to teach what is good or bad or wrong or right. Of course flogging has being proven to a temporal means of disciplining a child  but also with long term consequences see also “ reasons you shouldn't spank kids ”. Over the ...

A must read-- fifteen proven reasons you should not spank children.

Spanking/flogging children is  normal trend in Nigeria, despite the advocacy and different preachings against it... Nigeria and Africa as a whole is in a mess because of this infliction of punishment born out of ignorance and emotional gratification. Today we are talking about 15 proven effects of spanking on children. 1. spanking your child doesn't bring them closer to you instead it pushes them away from you. Such that your children won't feel free with you because of the fear of your cane. 2. Spanking, just like an old technology, is an old and crude way of training up a child.. Just as You cannot get the same effect when you use an old and crude way of making firewood compared to a better way of using a gas cooker. 3. You inflict emotional trauma and psychological disorder on the child; studies have showed that spanking or flogging a child is connected with having psychological issues later in the future e.g anger, fear, emotional pain e.t.c 4...

DSS parades woman for allegedly using first lady, Aisha Buhari’s name in multi-million naira fraud

03 December, 2018 An audacious woman allegedly used the name and office of First Lady Aisha Buhari at the Aso Rock presidential villa to stage fraudulent acts, one of which may have yielded about N150 million is now in custody, the Department of State Security (DSS) disclosed on Monday. Briefing reporters at the DSS headquarters in Abuja, its spokesman, Mr. Peter Nnochirionye Afunanya stated that investigation is continuing towards unraveling how the light complexioned middle-aged lady variously know as Amina Mohammed, Justina Oluoha and Amina Villa managed to beat the meticulous security protocols at the presidential villa and engage in her ‘business’ over an undetermined period. However, the accused lady pointedly contradicted the DSS version of the story, yelling at the top of her voice that she was never a fraudster as she only arranged transactions in Federal Government real estate, with the assistance of top government officials who had been benefitting from such. “T...

Little secret about watermelon...

This delicious fruit has about 92 percentage water and belongs to the cucurbitaceous family, which has other members like pumpkin, squash and cucumber among others. Watermelon is unique as it is considered both a fruit and a vegetable. It not just tastes wonderful, but also has numerous health and beauty benefits to offer. It is fat free and is an excellent source of vitamins A, B6 and C, contains potassium and beneficial plant chemicals like lycopene and citrulline. Fineness lovers, are you listening? The fibre content in watermelon makes it an amazing fruit for weight loss. This red fleshed fruit is known for all the good things, but what goes wrong with consuming it in large amounts? Related image Consuming too much watermelon is said to have many side-effects. You heard us! Despite its marvellous benefits, eating watermelon in large quantity can actually cause harm to your body. Here are some side effects of eating watermelon in large quantity. 1. May Cause Diarrhoea An...

African dance

African dance refers mainly to the dance of the non Arabs Africans I.e the sub sahara(the south,west and east part of Africa recognized by the united nations as second half of Africa) and Bantu cultivation of rhythm.  African dance utilises the concept as well as body articulation. Dance in its own place teaches social patterns, value, and also Hall people work praise or utilize members of the society or community while celebrating, festival and funerals competing, reciting poems, recital of  history, proverbs and also praising of gods. In many cases African dance is very interactive with spectators, making them part of the performance, except during religious or initiation dances...but even even in such cases there are times when spectators participate in such dances.  However, there usually is no one to one dance or touching during dance or dance between two  partners holding each other, because of was seen as immoral; this was Common among the Yoruba. And t...

War!! Unknown

Health , as defined by the  World Health Organization  (WHO), is "a state of complete physical, mental and social  well-being  and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."This definition has been subject to controversy, as it may have limited value for implementation. Health may be defined as the ability to adapt and manage physical, mental and social challenges throughout life.l A lot of people think being healthy is not having malaria, fever,  HIV, e.t.c without Knowledge of the fact that its health goes into our lifestyle, emotions, sociality, physic, mentality e.t.c A person Is considered healthy when he can manage all of these things without fatigue. You know,  fitness goes into being able to manage all daily activities without getting tired.. Of course,  it includes absences of diseases and infirmities. So you might want to ask questions like: *What determines my health? *What are the types of health? *Can I be fat and still be...

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