Replenishing love batteries
Friday, February 17, 2023 | 250 Views |
I had always naively believed that the celebration of a Valentine’s Day is the exclusive business of adults. But I couldn’t have been more dead wrong.
The fact of the matter is that the spirit of Valentine’s Day is increasingly gaining ground and becoming a common place occurrence in both public and private schools.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...