Parents, this is for you. Read till the end. Very important. 📌
If you don't want your children to become lazy later in life, teach them these five rules, especially number 4 and 5.
Rule number one: Don't let them stay in bed all morning. Even during holidays and weekends, teach them to wake up early. Because waking up early trains the mind and body to stay active, sharp, and productive throughout the day.
Children who grow up sleeping half the day away often struggle with discipline and challenges of life in the future.
Number two: Stop cleaning every mess they create. If they scatter toys, let them pack them up. If they dirty their room, make them clean it. Children who never clean after themselves slowly develop a mindset that someone else will always fix their problems. Responsibility starts with small, daily habits at home.
Number three: Don't take schoolwork lightly. Check their assignments and ensure completion. Correct careless behavior. Teach them to finish what they start.
Children who are held accountable academically often become more focused, disciplined, and serious about life.
Number four: Teach them to work with their hands. Don't let screens raise your children. Bring them into the kitchen. Let them help cook, wash, organize, and assist at home.
Children who learn how to create become more responsible than children who only sit and consume entertainment all day.
Number five: Let them try different skills early. Expose them to drawing, fixing things, music, sports, reading, public speaking, or creative activities. Because children often discover their talents by trying many things first.
The more useful skills they learn early, the more confident, capable, and hardworking they become later in life.
Raise your children with love, but also be firm with them, don't raise them to become weak, helpless adults.
I once watched a woman cry uncontrollably at the hospital after her sister’s late-stage cervical cancer diagnosis. She kept crying, saying that if somebody had told them there was a vaccine for cervical cancer, they would have gotten it. But it was already too late.
Ignorance is too expensive, and cervical cancer is one of the only cancers we can actually prevent with a simple shot. The HPV vaccine is that prevention.
Stop leaving your health to chance. Protect your daughters and yourself today. Get your HPV vaccine this week.
Budget friendly activities that you can do with your partner:
-Movie night at home
-Sip and paint home sessions
-Cook your favourite meals together
-Picnic dates
-Pedicure date
-Visit an art gallery
-Game nights at home
-Ice cream dates
-Visit a zoo
-Visit an amusement park
If you are relocating to Canada 🇨🇦 from Nigeria 🇳🇬 and don’t know which city to pick, let me save you the research.
🇨🇦 Toronto = 🇳🇬 Lagos. Same hustle. Same traffic on Don Valley Parkway. You didn’t relocate, you just changed currency.
🇨🇦 Ottawa = 🇳🇬 Abuja. Government jobs. Quiet life. People leave work at 5pm. Still can’t believe that’s legal.
🇨🇦 Vancouver = 🇳🇬 Port Harcourt. Beautiful. By the water. Everything is expensive and nobody is sorry about it.
🇨🇦 Calgary = 🇳🇬 Warri. Oil and gas. Tough people. No time for packaging. What you see is what you get.
🇨🇦 Brampton = 🇳🇬 Festac/Surulere. Every Nigerian knows someone there. The jollof, the churches, the hair salons. You will think you never left.
🇨🇦 Winnipeg = 🇳🇬 Kaduna. Overlooked. Affordable. Getting better quietly. Nobody talks about it enough.
🇨🇦 Montreal = 🇳🇬 Ibadan. Old soul. Rich culture. Speaks a different language and is very proud of that. You will adapt or struggle.
🇨🇦 Edmonton = 🇳🇬 Enugu. Solid. Underestimated. People work hard and say nothing about it.
Which one did I get right and which one did I miss? 👇
Ni eyi to ku ninu odun yi, mi o ni sunkun enikankan, won de ni fi oju sunkun mi. For the rest of this year, I will not weep over anyone and no one will weep over me, in Jesus name 🙏🏽