Do you remember having chores that you were responsible for when you were growing up? Were you paid an allowance to do the chores? I believe that if chores are tied to a monetary incentive, children can decide to opt out of receiving compensation. In the real world there are roles and responsibilities, if you […]

The long holidays have started and some teens and adult children are idle, only watching TV, eating and surfing the internet. After all the happenings in the last year, and the fact that international borders are gradually being open, travel and family time is important. Children also need to rest, catch their breaths and unwind […]

Parents are generally driven by a natural instinct to love, nurture, and provide for their offspring. Our greatest desire is to give them everything we ever had, or, never had, and more. The danger is that whilst we are deriving pleasure from indulging them, we may actually be spoiling them and interfering with their development […]

Our current educational system focuses almost totally on academic subjects and very rarely is any aspect of money management taught in the school curriculum. This is set to change in due course. At an event to mark Global Money Week held at Abuja in March 2014, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that the […]

It’s World Senior Citizen’s Day! A day set aside to appreciate the senior citizens across societies and celebrate and build on their achievements. The African family is dynamic and does not only comprise ofthe nuclear family, which is made up of parents and their children, but includes the extended family, which embraces several generations of […]

A firm foundation comes from a solid education and it is every parent’s duty and desire to give their children the best possible start in life. A foreign education is the dream of many students, but for thousands of Nigerians studying abroad as well as thousands aspiring to join them, the devaluation of the naira […]