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18/04/2024

Whoever Our Children Will Meet in life that Will Cost them Untimely Death, May their Paths Never Cross. Amen 🙏🏻

18/04/2024

During a visit to someone's house with your kids, control your kids.

It is unreasonable to let kids run around, pulling down house items while you sit unbothered.

Your host finds it annoying but wouldn't want to rebuke the kids to avoid misunderstanding.

Don't allow your kids to be out of control.

This should also be applicable while in a public place. Keep your kids under control. Kids needs boundaries.

One of the ways to make your kids behave well when you go out with them is by mentioning the kind of behaviour you want them to display. Be very strict about it.

When they adhere to the rule, don't fail to compliment them at home.

How ever, kids shouldn't be in every public place; concerts, market, weddings. There are places kids are not needed. If you have someone at home to care for them, leave them at home. If they are old enough, you can caution them on how to behave as you're leaving but don't lock the door from outside Incase of emergency. They should lock the door from inside if you want them to remain indoors.

If you must bring them to a public place, they should be under control.
Walshak Kos

10/04/2024

You can't regret reading this:

"My wife called, 'How long will you be with that newspaper? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?

I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. My only daughter, Sindu, looked frightened; tears were welling up in her eyes.

In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with curd rice. Sindu is a nice child, quiet and intelligent for her age.

I picked up the bowl. 'Sindu, darling, why don't you take a few mouthful of this curd rice? Just for Dad's sake, dear'.

Sindu softened a bit and wiped her tears with the back of her hands. 'Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, but the whole lot of this. But, you should...' Sindu hesitated...... 'Dad, if I eat this entire curd Rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?'

'Promise'. I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, and clinched the deal.

Now I became a bit anxious. 'Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items. Dad does not have that kind of money right now. Ok?'

'No, Dad. I do not want anything expensive.'

Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity. I was silently angry with my wife and my mother for forcing my child to eat something that she detested.

After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation. All our attention was on her.

'Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!' was her demand.

'Atrocious!' shouted my wife, 'A girl child having her head shaved off? Impossible!'

'Never in our family!' My mother rasped. 'She has been watching too much of television. Our culture is getting totally spoiled with these TV programs!'

'Sindu, darling, why don't you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head.'

'Please, Sindu, why don't you try to understand our feelings?' I tried to plead with her.

'Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that Curd Rice'. Sindu was in tears. 'And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for. Now, you are going back on your words.
"Was it not you who told me the story of King Harishchandra, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?'

It was time for me to call the shots. 'Our promise must be kept.'

'Are you out of your mind?' chorused my mother and wife.

'No. If we go back on our promises, she will never learn to honour her own. Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled.'
Worth reading!!! I promise.
With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful.

On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom. She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile.

Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, 'Sinduja, please wait for me!' What struck me was the hairless head of that boy. 'May be, that is the in-stuff', I thought.

A lady got out of car and came to me. She said 'Sir, your daughter Sinduja is great indeed! That boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son, Harish. He is suffering from... leukemia'. She paused to muffle her sobs.

'Harish could not attend the school for the whole of the last month. He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel teasing of the schoolmates...... Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue.....

"But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son! Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter.'

I stood transfixed with tears _'My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!"_

*The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms but are those who change their terms for others!*

Enjoy your week!

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10/04/2024

One day, you will look back and realize that you worried too much about things that don't really matter.

06/04/2024

06/04/2024

In 1982, My father was on a bus when a young lady in a nurse's uniform got on board. When the bus came to his stop, he walked to her seat & put a 50ngwee coin in her hand & told her he would find her.
My mom told me that she didn't pay him much attention that day on the bus because he looked old & rugged. At that time my dad had lost his job & didnt have much. He had defaulted on a loan & the bank had seized most of his property. and the toils of this life had worn him down. My mom was scared when this strange dirty looking man put a coin in her hand that she didn't say a word to him.

My dad knew he wud find her because there was only one clinic in the area at that time & so he figured she must work there.
So the next day he went to the clinic to look for her. He did not know her name & So he went to the sister in charge and described her. The sister in charge was so kind that she took my dad round the clinic to meet all the nurses she had on duty that day hoping he wud recognise her but alas she was not among those on duty that day.
After further description of her, the sister in charge concluded that the woman he was seeking was a young nurse by the name of Elizabeth and that she would be on duty the following day.
My dad bid her goodbye with the promise that he would return the following day.
True to his word...the following day, my dad took the 2 hour walk from his farm to the clinic to find his mystery nurse.
The moment my mom got to the clinic, the sister in charge told her of the man who was looking for her, from the description of the man, my mom knew it was the man from the bus who had given her the coin.
Around noon my dad reached the clinic, when my mom saw him coming, she was so embarrassed because of his appearance so she hid under a hospital bed. They looked for her but couldnt find her.
My dad chatted with the sister in charge for a few minutes then left.
He went to the clinic the following day & caught her unaware, he introduced himself to her & spoke to her for some time, told her about himself & his interest in her.
she recalls how he wore the same pair of black canvas shoes that had a hole in them that allowed his pinkie toe to protrude. My mom was so embarrassed, she cudnt wait for him to leave.
He kept on going to see her, sometimes she wud tell her friends to lie to my dad that she wasn't around & he wud go back. But sometimes he wud find her unexpectedly & she would talk to him briefly & then make up an excuse to make him leave.
My dad followed her to the clinic for sometime & then he stopped. He saw she wasn't interested because of the cold shoulder she would give him & he knew the friends where lying when they said she wasn't there. So he stayed away.
A week passed without him going there, & that started bothering my mom...she would stand outside the clinic looking at the long dusty road hoping to see him coming but he never did...all of a sudden, his old canvas shoes with a hole in them he wore each time he went there with the protruding pinkie toe didnt embarrass her as much...She realised she missed him.

One day she decided to go to the sister in charge, she saw them chatting a number of times after she wud blow him off & so she hoped she could help her find him.

The sister in charge who was alot older than my mom, sat her down & told her not to judge people by their outward appearances...she told my mom that she felt my dad was a good man who had just fallen on some tough times & that she shud get to know him.

One day as my mom was seated with other nurses in the nurse's station, she saw a lone figure coming up the long dusty road, it was my dad...oh she jumped up & ran to meet him at the road. She was so happy to see him.

They spent the afternoon together & my mom told me how happy she was. He wore the same old worn out canvas shoes that had a hole, but that day she was seeing him through the eyes of love...she saw a man who she felt could love her better than the other men who had let her down before.
When he left, the sister in charge sat my mom down & told her about the proverbs 31 woman from the bible. She told her not to look at what he didn't have, but to concentrate on what was there & build from that. She told her that all my dad had was an old house on a farm but if she was wise, that was enough to sustain them. She told her to ask God for wisdom to use that land to be a blessing in his life".
My parents had a traditional marriage shortly after.

On her days off, my mom made a vegetable garden. She would carry the vegetables she grew with her to work at the clinic and people would buy. Her garden grew that she hired farm workers, with the profit she built small houses on the land & put them on rent.
By the time I was 18, my mom had built 23 two roomed flats on our farm and had tenants. My mom bought cattle and would supply milk to people.
My mom's exploits motivated my dad to also start farming. He started growing & supplying strawberries to supermarkets. My mom got early retirement from nursing to concentrate on farming, she would supply maize to National mealing & vegetables to shoprite. Together they worked & grew. It was rare to find my mom without my dad nearby.

I saw my parents working together and at the end of the day, I saw them praying together.

In 2014 When my dad died, my mom asked me to write a tribute from her for his funeral, she told me that she was grateful he didnt give up on her...& that he decided to go back to the clinic one last time.

🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿

Many people will encounter true love atleast once in their lifetime, but many will miss it or already missed it because the love God sent their way did not come in the packaging they wanted.
Vanity & unrealistic expectations has made many people overlook the person who would have made their stay here on this earth a pleasant one.

They chose to love the wrong person because he or she had the right body, the right job, drove the right car or wore the right clothes & walked passed a love that was truly true just because it did not come in the "right" packaging.

🌿💚🌿🤍🌿💚🌿🤍🌿💚🌿🤍🌿💚🌿🤍🌿💚

My mom almost missed the love of her life because he didn't come in the right packaging...she was embarrassed of his appearance & financial situation & was scared what her family & friends would say.
But thank God for that sister in charge.

🌿🦋🌿💚🌿🦋🌿💛🌿🦋🌿💚🌿🦋🌿💛🌿

The charm of beauty & the pride of life are often the fortress of loneliness & great sadness.
If u r ever given a choice....please choose someone who brings peace to your life rather than someone who excites you.

🌿🍀🪻🌼- The Plant Addict🌼🪻🍀🌿

26/03/2024

When people are jealous and envious of you,that's an indication that you are blessed,Its better to be envied than to be pitied

26/03/2024

Sometimes slid into you wife DM and shout "Babe zup". 🤗🤦🤦🤦
Make her feel like a new chick even though she done lay eggs.🤝

21/03/2024

Cheer up always

21/03/2024

Fact📌

15/03/2024

Like and comment on her video usingthelink, she's in a drawing competition

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/MiTv4ZQ6oJzr7RRN/?mibextid=oFDknk

01/03/2024

*AND THE FISH DIED*

My son's aquarium had 3 fish and he loved his fish more than anything else in the house.

He talked to them morning afternoon and night as though they understood his language.

However, I noticed despite his immense love, he fed them sparingly and rebuffed every advice to increase the frequency.

So I decided I will help him out.

One day after he left for school, I decided to add more flakes and I did that for 4 consecutive days without telling him.

Guess what? I was woken up the 5th day by a loud yell: Oh My God! they are dead! All the fish are dead!! I mean he was screeching.

I jumped off the bed to check the aquarium. Behold, all 3 fish were belly-up.

What killed my fish? My son sobbed, demanding answer as if he suspected some foul play, then refused to dress up for school.

At this time I didn't know I was the culprit.

Then he put it directly to me. Dad, did you do anything?

Ignorantly I responded - No I didn't do any harm, I only helped you feed them when you were in school.

He paused, hugged me and whispered, Oh!!you killed them.

I still didn't understand.

If anything, I got more confused, but then I had to defend myself because in my village, adults don't go wrong 🙂. No I did not, I responded.

He looked at me with teary eyes, then went straight to my room and in seconds returned with my phone. Launched Google search, handed me the phone and watched me as I read 'A Hungry Fish is Healthy Fish, an Over fed Fish is a Dead Fish'. Wow!!

By the time I finished reading through, it was evident that adult goofed this time 😨. I literally killed the fish. I felt terrible.

Fish are fed sparingly.

My 9yr old son knew this because he learnt about it the moment he got the aquarium, but I didn't know and didn't care to ask him.

Just like many of us never read our phone manuals.

I thought I should share the story to let others know there is no limit to learning and everyone can learn from anyone including the kids.

It only takes humility.

Ignorance is quite expensive. It can cost much more than the fish.

So Never think you are too knowledgeable, too big, too educated, too experienced, too rich or too old to learn.

Learn to listen to others' opinions even when they sound contrary.

Remember, all you know is all you've learnt and all you've learnt is not all there is.

In the words of Alvin Toffler, 'The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn'.

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23/02/2024

Being married without children is indeed a very huge pain to bear😔
Oh God bless every marriage with children Amen
🙏🏼 🙏

17/02/2024

Once your partner finds a replacement 🥺 every conversation turns to argument 😔

17/02/2024

It is *AT HOME* that children should learn to say:

01 - Hello
02 - Good afternoon
03 - Good evening
04 - Please
05 - May I
06 - Sorry
07 - Forgive me
08 - Thank you very much
09 - Thank you
10 - I was wrong

It is *AT HOME l* that we also learn to:

01 - Be honest
02 - Be punctual
03 - Not insult
04 - Be polite
05 - Respect everyone: friends, colleagues, elders, teachers, authorities

Again *at home* we learn to:

01 - Eat everything
02 - Not speak with a mouth full
03 - Have personal hygiene
04 - Not throw waste on the ground
05 - Help parents accomplish their daily tasks
06 - Not take what does not belong to you

Still *At home* we learn to:

01 - Be organized
02 - Take care of our business
03 - Not touch other people's belongings
04 - Respect the rules,
05 - Speak our mother tongue (s), master our culture and ancestral spirituality

Because *AT SCHOOL* teachers should teach:

■ Mathematics
■ Spanish
■ History
■ Geography
■ Foreign language
■ Science
■ Chemistry
■ Physics
■ Biology
■ Philosophy
■ Sociology
■ Physical education
■ Art ...

And only reinforce what the student has learned *AT HOME* !!!
Because it is from what we learned *AT HOME* that we, individuals will be respected, that we will respect the life, freedom and property of all.

"A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PERVERSION OF VALUES AND IN FAVOR OF THE FAMILY AND A BETTER WORLD !!!"

*Please send to all your contacts !!!*

*All families let’s fight together as one!!!*

02/02/2024

They rejected your calls, thinking you want to bother them again.
Hear this, God will shock them this year!🙏🙏🙏

26/01/2024

Your parents will never bury you🙏🙏🙏🙏

25/01/2024

Anything u're doing against poverty.
Pls take it serious. There's a big difference betw "Have a seat" & "Find somewhere to sit"👌🏽🤷🏿‍♂️

24/01/2024

Got to NNPC filling station this morning to buy fuel. While in the queue, it was the turn of the man before me and there were two pumps in his front.

The immediate pump was vacant, but there was a car that was about to move out from the second pump.

This man moved past the immediate pump to wait for the car in the second pump. He did this to give me space to buy from the immediate pump.

I was sincerely impressed. Most people would simply block you even if the next pump is available to them.

Sadly for this man, the pump he moved to stopped selling and the attendant didn’t even bother to talk to the man.

I was just watching the man and wondered what would be going on in his mind.

While filling my tank, the pump attendant was looking for a working POS machine to collect her money.

Most of their POS machines were not working. When they found one POS with sufficient network, the man approached the attendant to ask her to sell to him since he has managed to reverse his 406 Peugeot in an awkward position to the pump he had moved past for my sake. The girl walked past him to me as if he was not there.

All of these things happened and the man maintained his calmness and patience but I knew he somehow felt that maybe I was treated better because my car is bigger than his own.

I know if I were him I would feel very bad.

While the pump attendant was trying to collect her money with her POS machine, I signaled the man and he came close to hear me.

Me: Good morning, sir.

Man: Good morning, sir.

Me: How much fuel do you want to buy, sir?

Man: Me? N17,000.

Me: (to the pump attendant) please, add 17k to my 30k. That’s 47k. I’m paying for this good man.

Man: Ah! Thank you, sir. (He also said some prayers with Hausa language)

Me: No, thank you, sir. You are a good and patient man.

Unfortunately again, the POS machine refused to work. Looking around, both the motorists and pump attendants in the busy filling station were all frustrated.

The girl tried different POS machines and different cards and it kept declining.

The man witnessed everything, rushed to his car and brought out cash of 47k and handed it over to the pump attendant and told me that I could transfer to him there or whenever my bank app allowed me.

We exchanged numbers and he texted me his account details. This man watched me leave without sending him his money there.

I got home wowed. Instead of sending him 47k, I sent him 100k. He’s been on the phone thanking and praying for me. According to him, he has been struggling to complete his last child’s school fees and the money I sent him would do just that.

I have told him that I will pay his family a visit this weekend and I intend to give one of his Children a fully funded scholarship up to the University level.

Love, always!

KAA_✍️

Moral lesson from Mr KAA's post:
Thank God for the man he was not inspired by "No gree for anybody" He could have miss this huge blessing. Abeg, sometimes make una dey gree o.

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22/01/2024

Teach ur children to greet each other when dey wakeup, dey will never forget to check on each other when they grow up.

21/01/2024

We have to admit it,we have relatives who don't consider us as family simply bco's we don't have money.May God bless us this year.

20/01/2024

People who paid money to see you fail will go back and ask for a refund..

15/01/2024

Awesome

12/01/2024

May we never be victims of any organs failure..
💔💔😭

Amen 🙏🙏

12/01/2024

You will never encounter any losses this year and beyond 🙏🙏

11/01/2024

Do you agree?