The same parents who travel long distances to help/ grieve/ celebrate their friends?
The ones greeting almost everyone from church to the market? They model alot about community and friendship. Alot of us think we're too good for mundane things.
Let's be serious please.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
No. Just stopped people pleasing and have firmer boundaries and maybe some people might interpret that as mean. Especially those who benefitted from my lack of boundaries.
Roughly 70%-80% of children in Namibia are raised by single mothers. Years of toil, stress and nurturing these children, yet we want to think people whose mental health is affected are men. Namibian men suffer from a culture of a lack of and abnegation of responsibility.
This codependency problem that our government especially the Ministry of education has created amongst parents with learners in government schools is one of the biggest problems in modern Education. And, this is not to be insensitive, some of these information can be communicated without making it a newspaper headline because, it causes so much confusion and harm to us as teachers who need the already very few parents that meet the government halfway.
Many times, even some of the vulnerable children who are under the care of their grandparents or family guardians, some receive grants from the government but that money goes to things that barely benefit the child. A N$10.00 ??? We are constantly forced to dig into our own pockets to make learning and teaching productive in our resource-starved classrooms and the government is not making things any better by encouraging laziness and lack of responsibility amongst parents.
Those 10 dollars come in handy when the ink runs out or copy paper finishes. It comes in handy when the budget is delayed and when relief teachers need to be paid. What exactly is the role of many of our parents? Why do we want to blame poverty for everything especially, the lack of parental involvement in the education sector? Why is our government so lenient with parents at the expense of stressing educators and expecting miracles from teachers?
If education is truly free, we as teachers can also start demanding for conducive classrooms, a class with a shiny floor, shiny unbroken windows and a class that comes with full teaching aids rather than having to take money from my salary to fix a class. If I can use 500-1000 from my pocket to invest in teaching aid, why can’t a parent pay 10 dollars for an application form???????????????????? One parent goes crying to one school, the entire system must be affected!
As a government employee, if these benefits apply to you, why are you not buying a house? You have one of the strongest support systems in the entire housing market. You get a housing allowance, first-time buyer benefits, lower transfer costs on certain properties, and if you’re married you can even combine salaries for a better bond. On top of that, you still have the option of using the pension-backed home loan pathway through GIPF.
When you put all of this together, you’re in a far better position than most people in the private sector. So the real question becomes: what’s holding you back?
Financial education is how we break the cycle of poverty. Not just by earning more, but by knowing what to do with what we earn. Saving, investing, understanding debt, understanding fees, understanding compound interest. These are not advanced concepts. They are survival skills that should be taught from a young age.