Tips for Festive Season
Friday, December 22, 2017
Do not try to please everybody
Some of us will be travelling long distances to meet our relatives, old friends, in-laws, as well as those irritating former primary school classmates who always demand some form of recognition. Yeah, they have made it their business to demand a quart, Chibuku carton and a cigarette whenever the opportunity arises. Most of the time, these folks never ask for a piece job because they believe that they will never work for a boy/girl like you.
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...