Rosemary Oshiomah Ogedengbe, PhD. Parenting is no doubt one of the most challenging but rewarding roles. A crucial aspect of parenting is paying attention to children ‘s behaviours, and taking steps to strengthen adaptive behaviours a...
How to Manage Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Part 1
Oppositional defiant disorder is characterised by a child’s consistent disregard for adults or authority figures. This is quite different from children’s ocassional display of stubbornness which is normal and can easily be corrected. Simp...
Help Your Wards to Set Out Early to Succeed in School
The desire of every normal parent is for their child to excel. It is therefore normal to feel disappointed as a parent, if your child performs below expectation at the end of a school term. While we expect optimum performance from our children, it is...
Give Children the Opportunity to Explain their Actions
A 4 year old boy went to his dad on a Saturday morning, crying. This was their conversation : Dad: Why are you crying? Son: Mommy hit me Dad: What did you do? Son: Nothing Dad: How do you mean nothing? Son: I did n...
