Parenting

Counting milestones one step at a time

Reading Time: 3 minutes Teressia Mugure holds her seven years old son’s hand as they slowly walk along a footpath in Mjini estate, at […]

Should parents give extravagant gifts to children

Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently, a business woman, stunned netizens when she bought a mansion for her son on his sixth birthday. She argued […]

Fitness and physiotherapy for optimal parenting

Reading Time: 4 minutes While most people view remedial muscle therapy as a preserve for athletes and the elderly, Susan Waceke shares how it […]

Making co-parenting work

Reading Time: 3 minutes We all want to be the best parents we can be for our children. While experts recommend a happy, stable […]

Entitled kids and the toll on parenting

Reading Time: 3 minutes We believe that nothing good or worthwhile comes easy, so we work hard to earn what we want. Unfortunately, children […]

I cook, clean for my hubby, but he says I don’t respect him

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi Achokis. I have been married for the last 10 years. My husband and I have three children. Of late, […]

Of children hidden from their ‘deadbeat’ parents

Reading Time: 3 minutes When John Paul* was growing up, he always wanted to meet his father. He was raised by a single mother, […]

Parenting during Covid-19 has made me strong and resilient

Reading Time: 4 minutes PAULINE KINJAH was running a catering business until coronavirus struck, forcing her to close down. The agony of staying at […]

Should I tell my son about his biological dad?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi Achokis, when I met my husband I was a single mum of a one-year-old boy born out of wedlock. […]

Celebrating a decade in parenting

Reading Time: 2 minutes FANNE MWAMBI Every parent rejoices when their child turns a year older. But nothing beats the feeling that comes when […]