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HELICOPTER PARENTING: VALUES OVER GIFTS © 2018 CHIBU NDUBUISI 29/9/2018 WEEK 39 “Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy”. Robert A Heinlein   Peace be upon you. Discussing with Commander M. M Okoye, he brought to the fore some principle of positive parenting to include but not limited to these list: he averred that parents must be Protectors, Priest, Providers, Role models Teachers, Companion and Playmate. After listening to him, I remembered the term "helicopter parent" which was first used by Dr. Haim Ginott in his 1969 book Parents & Teenagers. The teens explained that their parents would hover over them like a helicopter, giving them no space to take initiative. Another source explains helicopter parenting as about doing for children what they can do for themselves and making parental decisions based on our own ego and what we failed to achieved. We drive them to compensate for

    PEACE: NOT AN IMPOTENT CALL  © 2018                  CHIBU NDUBUISI                       22/9/2018      WEEK 38 True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” Martin Luther K ing. “ Applying military measures to solve socio economic contradictions is the equivalent of healing anemia  with bloodletting” . Johan Galtung Peace be upon you The search for world peace led to the formation of Congress of Vienna, Concert of Europe, League of Nations and the United Nations. September 21 st every year is commemorated as Global Peace Day. The African Union has dedicated September every year as Africa Amnesty month. The Make Peace Happen campaign of the African Union poses a question that “What will you do to make peace happen? The picture above shows the contradiction of investing in the instrument of destruction rather than productivity the developed nations have exported g

                                     MY AWAKENING © 2018                            CHIBU NDUBUISI                       WEEK 37     13/9/2018                         “We live life forward but we understand it backwards” Peace be upon you. It was Rev Fr. Tom Tracy who decided to set up a library section at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church Kano State to help develop a culture of reading and make the people informed greatly. I will forever remain grateful to him because while in secondary school at Zaria, Kaduna State, the school had a very good library but my interest in reading never soared until I failed my SSCE and had to re sit the examination at Kano. I had no option than to bend down and study hard.  While visiting the library to study another event sparked up my interest. It was the discussion of unemployed graduates who always came to the library to study and look out for job vacancies that they are qualified to apply. This was in 2001. They

  VIRTUAL REALITY VS GENUINE REALITY © 2018                       CHIBU NDUBUISI                    WEEK   36    08/09/2018 Peace be upon you. A friend of mine told me that he developed a very keen interest with a lady he met on Facebook. They started chatting and sooner the booked engagement to meet physically devoid of the social media arena. He was not only disappointed by her physical appearance but also the deceitful looks presented in the social media platform enabled by Photoshop and noise reduction applications. Likewise, simulation experiences are perfectly created and engineered to give us near real life experiences of how things are or can be in an ideal state. My friend however was not interested in the beauty of the heart of the lady in question or the intellectual content of the chat he had been having with the lady which kept him glued until he met her and the illusion created by the virtual world was busted as a result of unfounded expectations that we