I read an article in the newspaper by a women’s right activist justifying comprehensive sex education being taught in schools and the defense of sexual rights for school children. I am afraid this stand might promote immorality among school children. I will like to share a personal experience. About seven years ago, I had written
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Believe it or not, dandruff is a common scalp disorder that affects many teenagers. All that itching and scratching of your head could just be caused by it! Here are a few things you should know about dandruff’s- it has been established that keratinocytes play a key role in the generation of immunological reactions during dandruff formation.
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The brain does a lot of thing, including helping you to learn new things. Ever imagined how miserable life would be if your brain were to permanently fail to assimilate all those new information that is thrust at you every day at school? Indeed, life would be horrible! But do you know that there are
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Parents are naturally over-protective. However, some do take their over-protectiveness some extra miles, inadvertently infantilizing their children in the process. This they do despite their teenagers’ best efforts to assert their independence. Truth is, most over-protective parents think they are actually doing the right thing for their children; keeping them safe from the world and
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As you may well know, taking risks is a normal thing for most teenagers. For them, it’s like testing the boundaries and living the prime life; it is their own way of discovering life on their own terms. Indeed, the average teen takes at least one major risk before outgrowing teenagehood. Interestingly, no matter the
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For the average teen, loosing the virginity is not just a fleeting experience. Instead, it is an experience that comes with a lot of physical changes, emotional uncertainties and in most times uncomfortable consequences. By the way, by “uncomfortable consequences, I mean the chances of unwanted pregnancies and the likelihood of sexually transmitted diseases. But
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Financially literacy is undoubtedly necessary for overall success in life. It in in this light that it is important for teenagers learn about financial skills and actually use such skills. Parents must endeavour to teach their children these skills, while teachers reinforce the knowledge by incorporating financial literacy in their classroom talks. In the spirit
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There is no gainsaying the fact that in life, competition is rife. Sometimes we find ourselves competing, not necessary because we want to but because we have to. In order to get ahead in life, we must indeed complete. Therefore, the question of whether or not competition is good for teenagers is one that could
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Whenever intense discussions about reforming Nigeria’s education system emerges in the public square or policy corridors, they are usually triggered by the release of yet another (!) poor WAEC/Jamb exam results. If you think further, you will see that these discussions are perpetually led by adults and fueled by their ‘21st century’ economic aspirations for
This morning, I read about how the Nigerian Educational and Research Development Council (NERDC) collaborated with the United National Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have launched an entrepreneurship curriculum to be used for teaching senior secondary school students. The first thing that came to my mind is that this initiative couldn’t have come at a better
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