The time to start sex educating your child is now. No child is too small for sex education. My book “Sex Educate your Child like a Pro” is a good tool for sex educating children, you can order a copy HERE.

The questions about sex education usually come as; where do I start from, what do I do and how do I go about this?

One thing about sex conversation is, that parents are going about it the wrong way. You talk about sex with your child but what is the content of what you discuss? What do they see you do? What do they hear you talk about? Our parenting system is dependent on how much knowledge we have as parents. What exactly do you know as a parent?

Parenting ignorance keeps growing and the resultant effect will scar both the child and the parent.

Spending time in parenting must be done. This is the price to be paid, and if as a parent you don’t give the time needed now, you must definitely pay it sometime in the future. It must be paid at some point in the future. It is advisable to pay this price when it doesn’t scar the child or the parent. Sex education begins with you, the parent. The bigger part is that parenting is about you. This sex education is best referred to as sex conversation because it is a continuous thing. This conversation begins with the parent. In the school of sex conversation, the faculty is you (the parent).

Our sexual attitudes are shaped by our parents, then by peer groups, social media, and teachers. Understanding your sexual personality as a parent is the first step toward sex conversation and this is because parenting is first about you. Sex conversation is bigger than pointing out the public and private parts. Many parents today are afraid of discussing sex with their children, but it is important to know that there is no vacuum in parenting. Whatever you are not teaching your child, someone or something is teaching your child. There are many factors determining how we have these conversations. Some parents are too embarrassed by sexual terms to use them and this inhibits sexual conversation in our parenting journey.

The first point of call is
A. Parenting is about you
• Acknowledge these fears: What are you afraid of? Sharing the conversations or the misconceptions that you have?
• The sex conversation between you and your child is first non-verbal. Your beliefs, and attitudes towards sex will affect how your children view these conversations.
• Do an honest review of your sex life and share the result with someone trusted or a professional as the case may be
• Forgive yourself and learn how to go about these conversations
• Get a family value
• Get a media plan for your family.
Characteristics of parent-child relationship have an impact on decision children makes as regards sex conversation. Parenting is a set of shared norms, beliefs, and practices that are institutionalized and also operate at a structured level. So as a parent, do you know who, how and what you are parenting

B. Understand your child: Your child’s level of openness, conscientiousness, planning over spontaneity, child’s emotional stability, your child’s temperament. Understand what to teach.
•Understand how to teach sex conversation at different levels or age brackets.
•Yelling and beating a child is not sex conversation.
•Have a working media plan. Bad parenting will scar the child and parents forever.
•Put a structure in your plans. It costs a lot more to repair and these scars can never be undone.
•Take lessons on discipline: There is no sex conversation without appropriate discipline. Discipline is not yelling, discipline is not beating. They need to understand discipline to be able to understand sex conversation.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT IN SEX CONVERSATION.

1. Sex is deeply personal and a relational topic: Parents are not meant to tell their children if sex is good or bad. Share your experience of what sex is. This depends deeply on how you relate to your child. For this to be effective, you must develop a healthy relationship with your child. Have that connection with your child to be able to understand your conversation. One vital aspect of the relationship is the willingness to participate in the other person\’s world. your connection with your child determines how much they will want to learn from you and this builds trust. You cannot teach a child you are not connected with. Connection comes from spending time with your children. There is no sex conversation without trust. Trust is the currency in sex conversation. You get this by influence, not by force.

2. Having sex conversation is an act, not a science: Conversation gets more modified as age grows. Link conversation to character, spiritual truth, and understanding of who they are.

3. When asked a question, provide affirmation to ask more questions: Don’t shut them down. For instance, I am glad you asked and I know it’s a difficult thing to understand. It helps the child to open up and ask more questions. Get knowledge and inform rightly, because half-baked sex conversation is as dangerous as no sex conversation.

4. Address your misconceptions: Never tell a child all you know about sex conversation at the same time. It creates time for more connections later. If a child comes up with a question you cannot answer, don’t ever be scared of saying you don’t know.

5. Work on your emotions: Create an open environment for talking and listening. Do not react to everything your child does. Work on your ability to stay calm even in chaos.

6. Get more knowledge before your child moves to the next stage: Avoid parenting errors for responsibilities you failed to take. You are responsible for your child’s failure or success in this field. Get the knowledge your child needs for puberty, before your child is born, get the knowledge needed.

7. Ensure this conversation does not happen in a place where your child is uncomfortable.

8. Work on the dos instead of the donts: Teach the children how they can stay away from these and not just tell them not to engage. Remember, your child is first a sexual being. Assertiveness is part of sex conversation. We need to teach children to say no, which includes saying no to you as a parent. Refusal skill is part of sex conversation, tech conversation, and drug conversations are all sex conversations and these are non-touching sexual abuse and these are rampant today online where children get abused online. Create a system for those to influence your child to be available, and these parents need to create intentionally. Create a road map of who makes it to your child’s life journey.

9. Provide practical strategies for managing emotions and desires: You model to the child how to manage the skills they need. Teach them what to do and not what to do.

10.Build a connection with your child: Remove everything that will hinder your connectivity with your child, including our discipline pattern, time, and activities within the home. Yelling is a big killer of connectivity in parenting. A chronic yeller cannot have an effective sex conversation. This needs both parties to be conversing. It will be a conversation that requires feedback. Always parent from the place of connection. Spending time is a big factor and then connecting from the place of knowledge is another big factor. Parenting is not about tips and hacks, parenting is about the process. The process comes from the place of knowledge.

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Yelling is a big deal in our clime, in fact it is everywhere globally. Yelling is known to be passed from parents to offspring\’s. Once you are yelled at as a child, automatically you pick up yelling and your children pick it up too and the cycle continues. Growing up, my parents never yelled and we listened to them more than the yelling parents.

Some parents believe their children do not listen except you yell at them. This is a bad narrative sold to us that is completely wrong. The more you yell, the more your child resists what you are teaching.

Yelling has other side effect both on the yelling parent and the yelled child. The bad effect to the yelling parent as :high blood pressure, artery pain, anxiety, heart attack, anger issue and a lot more on this list. My best selling book ‘from yelling to calm’ is my journey from being a yeller to a calm parent.

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Yelling also has its negative effects on our children; we bring up children who are timid, children without great self esteem, the inability to stand up to an adult whether the adult is wrong or not. Most of us were instructed not to question an adult, even when the adults seem to be wrong. One of the greatest gift we can give to our children is the ability to question our actions. Yelling affects the self esteem of our children, both at home and outside, children who cannot speak up. We raise children who cannot stand up for themselves.

This low self esteem eventually follows then through out their growth process, till adulthood. However you program your child, that\’s how your child will grow. The ability of a child to stand up and say that s/he is not okay with the abuse being melted on him/her is as a result of how their parents trained them. Our training as parents will help instill confidence in our children and enable them to speak up and leave an abusive environments.

The ability to think was shut down for most of us when were growing up. Not yelling at your child does not mean permissive parenting. It only means that you can parent in a more effective way apart from yelling. One of the reasons I am actively fighting the way we were raised is that, we are intentionally and unintentionally transferring this to our children. Training is beyond yelling and beating a child. Training requires that you do the job of discipline which requires you to build a structure.

The five basic things you can do to grab your child\’s attention without yelling and :

1. Take the opposite tone: The harder your child’s voice becomes, the softer the tone we respond with. With this, You are teaching your child how he is supposed to be. Model the kind of conversational skill you want them to emulate. With this, the child learns by your behavior because children learn better by what you model to them. The book “from yelling to calm” shows that the angry person needs the most kind words. This helps us to take the opposite tone and the next person backs down. Soft words turns away wrath.
2. Calm repetition: Most times, we demand that when we speak, the child picks it instantly. But we need to implement the calm approach, which is quietly repeating what you said to the child. Repeating the same phrase as much as it needs to be. You need to make an impression for anybody to internalize a message.
   For anyone to learn and internalize a message, you need to make an impression, and for you to make an impression, it comes from repetition. Calm repetition can be a great tool to learn instead of yelling. When calm repetition is practised, the child will know how serious you are. Always remember that whatever you sow in your children, that is what you reap. In parenting there is seed time and harvest. There is no time frame to the harvest. So start now to sow the right seed required.
3. Ask questions: Instead of yelling, ask questions. When there is room for negotiation, certain phrases can turn to arguments but turned into a healthy conversation. Create a room for the child to negotiate. Use simple short calm repetitive phrases, and allow children throw in their ideas or opinion. Ask questions in short phrases to enable some kids, kinesthetic children in particular to negotiate. When you don’t have time to negotiate, ask questions.
4. Be positive and clear: Being clear and direct about what you require is important. When giving direction or instruction, be specific and direct. Once you yell, your child picks self defense mechanism. Instead of connecting, your child is thinking of defence. And at this time, the ability to listen is taken away from the child instantly. Some children do not hear whatever you say at the point of yelling at them. The brain looks for a way to escape from the present situation. The brain works to preserve the human being, therefore it doesn’t comprehend yelling. For instant, use your child’s name while giving instructions and it gets the child’s attention. Be more apt and specific when directing instructions. An upset child is not a listening child.
5. Make it fun: Sometimes you just need to diffuse the intensity of the instruction. You get your child in the position where they are able to connect. You bring in fun into the activities of the moment and this helps the child connect. Yelling is like a fire alarm. We have a Yellometer, used from ages appropriate. It alerts you the parent when raised from 7-8, when it becomes dangerous. When raising your voice becomes dangerous, it acts as a fire alarm. If you are constantly yelling, it simply means you are raising an alarm consistently. The no yelling challenge has helped a lot of parents break free from yelling
6. Take a break: If it feels like one of the two parties is loosing control, call a break. This is also helpful with couples, friends…call a break when it gets overboard. Self reflection is a great skill, which can also be modeled to a child. Give that time out if the conversation is going to make a mess of your head. Teach your children conversational self control by modeling it to the child. Discipline is not meant for the public places, this shows that as a parent, you don’t need to discipline your child in the public. Disciplining a child in the public is actually embarrassing the child and not to discipline the child. Disciplining a child in the public means you need to validate that you are a good parent. You do not need people to validate your parenting if you are doing what is right. Your child can be corrected properly by not making it an emergency. When you make it an emergency, you will not think through your process and you will do things you will eventually regret. It takes emotional muscle to parent calmly. Aggression does not solve the problem.

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If this question can give you a one-dollar bill each time it is asked, I would have a million-dollar bill by now, that goes to show how inquisitive tons of parents are about parenting with calm.

Sometime this week, a parent said to me in a session “Ma I think your children are different”… I laughed.

Truth is, Parenting challenges are universal, Children are the same all over the world, there is no perfect child. But I have learned over the years working with thousands of parents and being a parent myself that what makes the difference is the skill we possess and what we know.

One of the things I have learned when it comes to intentional parenting is ‘that calmness is a skill’. Yesterday I was sharing with a set of parents who lived in the U.S.A. and one of the very valid things is that calm parenting is a problem everywhere. it is not peculiar to a particular region. It is something that every single one of us is striving to achieve.

What exactly does calm mean? Calm is a sense of internal composure that lets us function to the best of our abilities. It is the ideal state of the brain supported by the body, completely aligned with it, allowing us to harness our cognitive powers while maintaining a balance with our emotions. When it comes to parenting with peace and calm, we must understand that it is generally not an easy adventure.

If you want to go on a calm journey, one of the things you must note is that when you are not calm, you are not operating with the logical brain. You are operating with the part of the brain that controls emotions and impulses. One of the best things that you can do for yourself when it comes to parenting, is the ability to have control. Take responsibility for how that part of the brain functions.

Let’s consider some things that you are doing that might be limiting your journey to calmness. Now in the inner circle our theme for this month is parenting with peace and calm. Many times, I have seen quite a several parents say that parenting with peace and calm is not possible.

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What I have realized is that it is not about how our children that make us yell, what makes us yell is our inability to control our emotions. So you need to get to a point where even if you raise your voice, you decided to and you are conscious of it.

To successfully parent with calm, there are many things that you will put in perspective . Some of the things that you must consider on this journey of parenting with calm are:

1. Parenting with peace and calm is not parenting without discipline nor is it akin to permissive parenting: When we talk about intentional parenting, one of the errors found is that people think that we are asking them not to discipline their children so they kick against it without understanding the whole essence. Discipline aims to help your child learn, correct the process, and learn. But we find that our disciplinary process as requires that we are just doing things over and again and the habits we are trying to correct continue to grow. Parenting with peace and calm is not parenting without discipline, neither is it permissive parenting. When we say parent with peace and calm we are not saying that you should not discipline your children, nor are we saying that you should be permissive. Permissiveness is an error. Permissiveness is doing a disservice to your child.

2. Discipline aims to make a child learn not to make them afraid: When you yell, you make your child afraid. When you discipline, you teach a child. Fear is not the aim of discipline. Discipline aims to correct. My definition of negative discipline is any discipline that does not get you the desired result and then also hampers the self-concept of your child becomes negative. Negative discipline does not give the desired result and it attacks the person of your child.

3. You can raise a successful child using peace and calm parenting methods. You do not need to beat a child and yell for them to behave properly. Whoever told you that lied to you. You can achieve that by parenting with peace and calm.

4. It is easier to yell at your child than to learn the strategies to become a calm parent. This is because calmness is a skill, and peace is also a skill. Our theme of the webinar for the inner circle (join the inner circle here )this month is learning peace as a skill. You can learn the skill of keeping your environment peaceful. There are techniques and things that you can learn to be able to create a peace system. It is easier for you to yell at your child than to learn the strategies to become a calm parent. Intentional parenting is tough work, it is tougher than hitting and yelling at your child.

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It tries everything about you. If you can succeed in intentionally parenting your child, you can succeed at anything. Intentional parenting works for the whole of you. It is not just your child, it walks you and changes the whole of you. That change is tough, so it is easier for us to just give a slap than to hold your hand. Easier to scream and get away with it than to be.

5. When a child can\’t calm down, they need connection and comfort, not criticism and control. If your parenting is full of control, criticism, instructions, and yelling, there\’s something wrong with that part. What we are looking at in parenting is connection, conversations, comfort, and communication.

Calmness is a skill

6. Calmness is a skill, It\’s not something you assume. A lot of us assume calmness and that is one of the reasons we cannot get to our place of calm. Our place of calm will mean different things to all of us, but calmness is a skill and not something you assume. Many of us have the intention to parent with calm but we don\’t reach the place of parenting with calm because we assumed that calmness is something we just intend to do and it happens. If you do not build your place of calm, if you do not build strategies to achieve calmness, you will assume it an assumption is the lowest form of knowledge. Calmness is a skill, it\’s not something you assume. When it comes to parenting, intentions are good but intentions are not enough. You can have good intentions and still destroy your child because without skills and knowledge intentions can get messed up. You can love your child and still destroy your child because you lack the knowledge and you like the prerequisite skills to be able to deliver.

7. Calm parenting is not about perfection but the process. Are we teaching perfection? No way, We are teaching you the possibility. Calm parenting is not about probability. It\’s about the possibilities. So perfection is that at every point in time you are in control of the situation. The process is, that I am a work in progress, I am conscious of what is happening to me, and even when I make a mistake I can recognize that at that point, I have made a mistake and I can pick up myself. What we teach is not perfection. When your children do something wrong, we are not saying that you can apply some principles and then your children will become perfect neither are we saying that you would need to become perfect. we are saying in your imperfections you must remember that the work is in the process. It\’s a continuum. it is not a destination. The aim of calm parenting is not about reaching a goal, it is not about a destination, it is about a journey. Calm parenting is a journey, it\’s not a destination. Don’t have the mindset of running to reach a destination in parenting.

The C-A-L-M Approach To Parenting With Peace And Calm

1. C means connection. What does connection mean? Connection means conversations and communication. In many of our homes, there were barely any conversations. How do you build connections? What do you do? conversations, Many of us grew up not understanding how to have conversations, which is why many of the times I have had parents who complained to me about something and they go on, no I am talking I usually smile.

2. A means acceptance. The accepted child will accept himself. I am talking about acceptance when is it most difficult to be accepted. When that child has just stolen that money and they called you from school and they told you that your child had just badly behaved. Acceptance is difficult. Acceptance is not loving. That child that is constantly doing the wrong thing and is hitting you back to back, is what acceptance is about. When you still accept, I can be a hero to that child. No child gives upon themselves. The only child that gives up on themselves is a child whose core adult has given up on them. Every child continues to thrive provided an adult believes in them. So there is no time when you can give up on a child. Every time a child gives upon himself, it means that an adult has given up on them. In my book connect to correct, I said, do you accept your child for who he is. A lot of us are parenting the children we are trying to parent the children we don\’t have. we are not parenting the children we have. acceptance means parenting the child you have. If your child has Dyscalculia.

3. L Means Listening. For you to use the calm approach, part of the things that you would need to use is the ability to listen. Many times, one of the things that we do not have on this journey is the ability to listen. We were not listened to, we don\’t find listening to our children Important. So anytime we come to a place where we need to listen to our children, we fight it because it is not important to us. If you were not listened to as a child, you will become a parent who also doesn\’t listen to your child. The ability to listen is a big deal. You need to ask yourself do I really listen or do I just react? One of The reasons we respond the way we respond on social media when we read some things is that we don\’t internalize it. We don\’t listen, we just react and it is from our reaction that all of these things come out. If we can listen, then we will be able to connect more with a child and parent from a place of calm. Many of the times what our children are telling us, need to listen to them and not react to them. Your child is throwing a tantrum, you are not listening, and you are reacting when you are screaming back at your child. Are you listening or are you reacting?

4. M Means Mastery: You cannot master the calm approach without mastering your emotions. The concept of mastering your emotions is one of the biggest things you can do for yourself in your parenting journey. How much of your emotions have you been able to master? Have I mastered my emotions? What are my triggers? What are the things that I have been able to put together? Mastery helps you to plan. Mastering your emotions, helped you to look at the triggers and mitigate them. Part of mastery is that when you are looking at things coming, how much have you been able to input and mitigate that thing that will happen? The holiday is a trigger but the question is how much of that trigger have you been able to prepare for. Mastery gives you the ability to look at those triggers and then put it together and say, this is what might happen, let me prepare and structure. that is where structure comes in. The more structure you build around your parenting system, the more you can put a lot of things in perspective. Mastery gives you the ability to think. Mastery gives you the ability to understand who you are emotional. Mastery gives you the ability to be
responsible for your triggers.

Part of my triggers is a place that is scattered. For every time, where it is a holiday or a chaotic period comes, I put together a system that will help me to get such an occasion even if it is going to come up and if it comes up, I also put together an approach that will help me to be able to take responsibility for my emotions.

Part of what we are going to be doing at the ‘no yelling challenge’ that comes up in May is teaching you how to use the step-by-step guide of the calm approach.

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When you join this cohort of the no yelling challenges, you will learn about the calm system and all of the rules and things you need to learn for the calm system to become successful. One of the things you must learn is that this is a skill. Calm is a skill and if you are going to remain calm then you are going to start learning the skills that will keep you calm. One of the things I have also found is that many of the times we are struggling with calm because of the things that have happened either to us or to people or the things that happen in our childhood.

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Now the question is, Is it even possible to stay calm in the face of a misbehaving child? How do you not lose it? In recent times, globally there has been a lot of rancor about people not being able to manage their emotions. I realized that this is the same thing that happened when we start to parent. Parenting is an emotional journey, It takes you to the point where you\’re very frustrated with some of these misbehaviors.

Staying calm in the face of chaos is a skill, it is not a prayer point. A lot of religious people will fight it but trust me it\’s a skill that you need to learn.

Like I always tell the parents in the inner circle, you can join the inner circle here, “miracles don\’t come from just believing, Miracles come from doing and that is why it says that faith without works is dead. What exactly are you doing? that is the question. Somebody reached out to me today and said she had to hit her child and there was blood all over. She said, “I felt bad however, I can\’t help myself”. she said she has prayed about it but it\’s not working. No, you haven\’t done what you\’re supposed to do.

When people tell me, I want to really parent with calm, what I get is, “I am wishing it, I am not ready to work it”. Many times, we are just in a place where we are wishing to win. We are not in the place where we are putting in the work. And until you get to that point where you tell yourself that this is work that needs to be done, then nothing really changes. So parenting with peace and calm is a skill. Can you look at your child who is misbehaving and stay calm? How possible is that? Yes extremely possible.

However, you cannot do it without the right set of skills. The parents in the inner circle would say before I joined the inner circle, some of the things that the coach share on Tuesday live, I used to think she was kidding us, but by the time I spent a few weeks to months, I have come to realize that there are things you need to do. There is a practice, there is what to do. The question is, are you really doing what it takes?

When a child is acting out, it could mean that the child is lost, afraid, in need of guidance, is seeking attention or the child lacks skill.

When we fight our children for doing things they do without teaching them any other way to do it, we are actually doing it the wrong way. So, the first thing you want to ask when a child is misbehaving is, why is my child misbehaving?
Is my child is lost?
He doesn’t know what to do?
Is he afraid?
He doesn\’t know how to react in these circumstances?
He needs me to help and guide him?
Is he seeking my attention?
Does he lack the possible skills that I am actually requesting from him to actually behave in that certain way?

Capacity is a big deal and that is one of the things that we must put in perspective when we are raising our children. Your child acting out doesn’t mean that he is a bad child. A misbehaving child is not a bad child. There is no such thing as a bad child. We need to get this and we need to actually internalize it. A misbehaving child is not a bad child. it is just because the child is still learning, the child is still growing. So, misbehavior is part of the process. If your child doesn\’t misbehave, how do you know what you\’re teaching? The misbehavior points the parent in the direction to go in directing the child.

Over the years, after getting into helping parents and children walk through the systems of parenting, I have come to realize that it is just us. When a child misbehaves and many of the times we resort to screaming out, this isn\’t the solution.

You cannot just wake up and decide that I am not going to yell again, I am not going to hit the child again, and then it happens. No. it is not going to happen that way. Because you have a template in your system that has been sold to you. You are operating based on what you know. You are a product of your experience and a product of your knowledge. You\’re going to react to issues according to what you know. You\’re going to react to issues where your experience is stopped. You\’re going to react to issues where your knowledge particularly stopped.

What are the things that you can do, what are the things you need to understand when we talk about staying calm in the face of chaos being a skill? What must you understand as a parent to help you stay calm?

1. Discipline Is Not An Emergency: I am sure a few people like the parents in the academy (you can join the academy here ) must have heard me say that discipline is not an emergency. Well, they were privileged to review my book, the discipline that works in the academy and I remember re-emphasizing that discipline is not an emergency. What makes discipline an emergency most of the time for you is, what the next person will think, and what if I don\’t address this thing now and my child becomes useless tomorrow?

Discipline is not an emergency, provided your child is safe you must understand that everything is not about violence. When you make discipline and emergency, you actually take away the essence to be able to help your child at that moment. So being able to help your child in the face of misbehavior, is one of the things that you must put at the back of your mind. The aim is not to punish a child for misbehaving, the aim is to teach a child how to behave better. The aim of discipline is not to punish, so you need to learn to take a moment to pause. Plan how you would respond is very important.

When a child is misbehaving, one of the first things that you need to look out for is, how am I going to respond? What am I going to do? So when you fail to pause, you find yourself reacting or having to double your efforts to reconnect. When you choose to pause, you may believe that you\’re doing nothing but trust me, the power of that initial nothing, is the road to a karma response and an emotionally responsible child. Remember that the aim is to raise a child who will become emotionally responsible afterward. Is your child emotionally responsible? How can a child be emotionally responsible if you are not emotionally responsible? So that is the main thing. You need to show your ability to respond emotionally to actually be able to help your child. So while you are pausing, you can ask the following questions to help you;
● What guidance can I offer my child?
● How can we both benefit from this moment?
● How does my child need to get back on track or what can I do to help my child to get back on track?

2.Believe That Your Child Can Do Better: There is something that we call self-fulfilling prophecies, you need to be careful what you say in the face of misbehavior. Many of the times I have found that when a child is misbehaving, that is when parents go off, they say all sorts of things, that is when you lose it. that is when they just go crazy.
Do you have faith enough, that no matter how many mistakes your child makes, he\’s worthy of learning from your guidance? That is the first thing you need to tell yourself. No matter how many mistakes my child will be making, I am sure that my child will benefit from my guidance. Do you believe your guidance will work? When children misbehave, it is usually because they are stuck. So, when misbehavior shows up is because your child doesn\’t know any other way of letting you know that they are afraid, that they are hurting, that they are upset. Let your child know you believe they can do better.
So instead of a child who is misbehaving, you saying “I know that you will never ever listen to me”, instead of saying that why not say” I know that you can do better and I know that if you actually take these things the way I say it, you will be able to change a lot of things”. Be careful of what you say in the face of misbehavior. “My child is always stealing, lying…all of those things are key to our process.

3. Build skills: An unskilled child will frustrate you, there are seven essential life skills that you need to build in your child to actually be able to tackle these behaviors. Without building those skills your child will continually make those errors and it will not be a result of the child being a bad child. It will just be a result of a parent who is ignorant of what to do. So you need to incorporate these skills into your daily routines. Part of what we do in the inner circle is to help you incorporate some of these skills that we are sharing with you right in our daily routine. We have what we call the connection calendar and inside that connection calendar, it is a curriculum that has been built in a way that all of these seven skills I am gonna be sharing with you are actually being practiced every day. (You can join the inner circle here)

●Focus and self-control. Children thrive on schedules, habits, and routines. Any child that you put unpredictability in their system, you are going to “kill them” because that is how people thrive. Children thrive in predictability. Predictability is a key skill in your parenting. So focus and self-control in one of those conversations in the inner circle. We shared how to teach your child self-regulation which is part of its focus on self-control.

● Perspective-taking: Thinking about another point of view. A lot of the time because of the way we are raising our children, they cannot learn because we parent in such a way that we are focused on just how a straightway. there is no other thing to actually help our children think again. So perspective-taking is a skill but our parents and our daily routine don\’t give our children the opportunity to thrive or get this skill. So what does perspective-taking do: it helps you to see another point of view, to have meaningful conversations. Your children will never learn perspective thinking if you\’re parenting that way because your child learns all of these things. These things are not learned in school. They are learned in the home and we must understand that.

● Communication: Communication is one skill that you need to teach your child to be able to avoid all these misbehaviors. I have found that a lot of homes are about criticism, instructions, controls, and judgment, yellings, there are no conversations, there are no connections, there are no collaborations. If your home lacked these three C\’s your home is in trouble. Stand up today, connection, communication, collaboration. These are the three C’s on communication, and that is why intentional parenting, one of our core is connection. Connection is a key tool for us. How do we actually teach our children communication? I found that many of us cannot have valuable communication because we were not taught communication at home. There was never communication. that is why when I see how people argue online, the moment There is a diverse opinion, so perspective-taking is why a lot of us do not have that skill of being able to look at things from another person\’s perspective and this is also part of the conversion processes. But we are not taught conversations at home.
● Critical Thinking Skills: Many of our children cannot think? The only thing that we do is that we teach our children how to pass exams and that is not parenting. When all your child does is to be able to go and just pass the exam they can\’t think through their process. There is something wrong with that parenting.
● Resilience: Resilience is a very key skill in our parenting journey. Resilience is our ability to build the adversity quotient. Do you know why in Nigeria we use the quote this life is no balance? The reason is simple, while some people can be very resilient in the face of adversity, some can. that is it and that is why there is no balance. So if your child will learn to work, if you would learn to teach a child how to improve the adversity quotient then you\’re going to have a child with very minimal misbehaviors. So ability to build adversity quotient. Taking on challenges. I was sharing with the parents in the inner circle, one of those days and I said to them that struggling is part of learning.

4. Allow your children to struggle. A child who does not learn how to struggle is bound to fail. Allow your child to struggle. The struggle is a gift. We call it the gift of struggle. Your child is falling. You are constantly helping your child come up. The gift of struggle is a big deal. You need to teach your child that struggle is nothing but instead of allowing them to struggle, I see a lot of parents, your child does something, you jump up and down you, take the kid, you beat the child but yet your child can\’t struggle. Your child does or does not have all of these skills that we are reading here.

● Self-Directness: Our children must be self-directed and engage in learning. Many of our children are not self-directed. We are still the ones directing them. we are still the ones telling them what to do. we are still the ones putting everything together. it is still us. we are still the ones trying to do everything for them. There is no self-direction because we are parenting in such a way that everything is about us. You can\’t let your child have to make decisions, you cannot allow them to put things in place. Everything is about you. You\’re constantly making decisions for your children. There is something wrong with that. So you need to understand that part of your parenting and also deal with it.

● Engaged learning: Engaged learning is another concept many of our children don\’t know how to learn. All we do is that we are raising children who just pass exams. The moment they are done with school, they don\’t want to learn. That is why a lot of us also are not interested in learning. We have all gone to school and some of us made 2:1, 1:1 and some of them made different kinds of grades in classes but we come out and we are not interested in learning. The joy of learning is not there. You were not taught that learning is a skill. If your child learns the skill of learning, you are on your way to minimizing misbehaviors. There are learning skills and without them, your child will continue to struggle these skills can be developed through intentional activities, which is one of the key things that we do in the inner circle.

4. Build on your emotions and quit yelling: Now in the month of April in the academy, we are going to be facing yelling, where we are going to be introducing our no yelling challenge and we are going to be talking about yelling a lot. (Join our waitlist here for the no yelling challenge so you are informed when early-bird registration starts)

One of the things that a lot of parents do not understand is that yelling can actually shut down the brain of a child and stop them from learning. So you need to understand that you need to work on your emotions. Now we say, stay calm in the face of chaos, but the truth of the matter is that, if you cannot control your emotions, you would not be able to actually give this calmness that we are talking about, you can\’t do it and again it is not a prayer point. it is a knowledge point. Take it from me. You need knowledge to actually be able to practice this particular skill. I have been there where I thought it was prayer and trust me you need to actually walkthrough.

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One of the problems  I have seen as regards learning is parents thinking it is the responsibility of the school to do everything for their child to succeed. When you dig deeper you find out that the school is just a part of the success story of your child.

A classroom is a place of learning, no doubt, but you must understand that learning starts from the home first. So, if your child is not learning at home, your child will struggle with learning in school as well.

I remember vividly, this particular classmate of mine in primary school who is also a member of our Facebook community. I remember him sharing a story in our community on how he was named dumb and people like me were named smart, that post made me so sad even if on the contrary to should have made me happy ; because it was all about praises for me, but I was really sad when I read that post because I realized how much a lot of children were destroyed. The advantage that this guy had was that he had parents who understood learning disabilities and boom they provided early intervention to him.

While the teachers in our primary school felt that this guy wwas dumb, the teachers at home who are his parents, decided that their child wasn’t dumb but smart and today their involvement has payed off. That same guy who was called dumb now teaches in one of the best Universities in the UK, He is also a Ph.D. holder.

Whenever I recap on this story, it beats me how a lot of people have been destroyed as a result of ignorance.

“What will be your child\’s parenting advantage?

To enhance your Child’s learning ability, you need to ask these questions :
•Are the settings in my home, giving my children the opportunity to thrive?
•What parenting advantage do my children have by having me as their parent? I ask this question a lot of the time to the parents in the Inner Circle (You can join the inner circle program here)

I learned quite lessons from my dad, I Several learned public speaking from my dad, to the point that when I needed to practice public speaking in my days in the USAID, I remember vividly that I didn\’t need to do much. People just felt I was too good. No I just had a parenting advantage and that was it.

What would be your Child’s parenting advantage?

Last Tuesday, I said that what you know is what is going to determine how far your child will go. So the question is what do you know?

The ability to learn is learned. Individual personality, learning style, temperament plays a big part in your child\’s willingness to learn and their overall disposition when it comes to schooling and education. So you need to understand that your child\’s ability to learn will be a determining factor to your child\’s personality, your child\’s temperament and your child\’s learning style.

We are going to be looking at the strategy that can help you enhance your child\’s motivation to learn and you will see them discover the joy of learning.These strategies that you would need to help enhance your child\’s motivation to learn are:

1. Develop an atmosphere of reading: Reading is key to success. People have argued that reading itself is key to an overall success of the human being. I have also argued that reading is key to success in learning. Children who develop love for reading will naturally develop love for learning. Children who struggle with reading will naturally struggle with learning. Now a lot of people think that the only thing that children get when they read is that they develop rich vocabulary. Some people say oh it just makes them speak well, this is a good thing but it is one of the things that reading does but beyond that, reading actually helps your child\’s brain to learn how to process concepts and formal communication.

Reading helps your child process concepts and without the ability to process concepts your child will not be able to learn.The ability to process concept for any human being is actually what gives them the eventual joy of learning.

In the inner circle program, one of the key things we do is to read. You can join the inner circle here . A parent reached out to me recently and said that she has never bought a book for the child before that is not an academic book. That worried me because,how do you want your child to learn if you do not develop an atmosphere of reading? When you teach your child how to develop the ability to learn on the concepts. Formal communication reading and a lot of the things that your children should do.
How do you achieve this environment? How do you achieve this atmosphere to create the environment that keeps trying to learn? Your children should not be forced to learn. If you are forcing your children to learn, there is something wrong with the system that you are currently using and you need to undo that, because you are going to create yet another generation who do not want to learn and just pass exams.

2. Buy books: A lot of parents come back to me and say coach I have been buying books my children have been tearing the books. Are you guys kidding? Most times I ask these parents, the designer bag you bought 500k, 1,000000, have you carried it forever? At some point you tossed it at one side and then you continued, but yet something as valuable as books, we find it difficult. Our value system is skewed to one side. I keep saying that if we cannot even buy books to read ourselves, if we cannot even exemplify the joy of learning, how do we want our children to learn? I have asked this question over and again. I mean that is actually the truth. Priorities, we need to begin to set our priorities. See the moment you become a parent, your priorities changes and you must understand that priorities. Somebody once told me that all these books that we have in my house are we planning to open a library? I said yes we are. The number of books that is currently in my home that we have bought over the years. Sometimes we have had book budgets that we have spent. I am not even going to put out what it is that we budget on books on a monthly basis. If you can\’t exemplify the joy in learning, how do we get our children to read? What are you reading? How are you doing these things? Buy books. Leave that asoebi you are supposed to sow.

3. Create family reading time: Is there a time in your home where you actually read. For our home, reading books are a priority. People have argued to say that we both come from families where our parents were teachers. I agree that is an advantage but you can create a system like that. Growing up I read everything Chinua Achebe wrote. Everything. I walked the streets of everywhere in the world even before I stepped my foot in those places .I knew how the parts of the world looked. It was exciting. My experience about the world was enlarged in books. When I said that the skills your children will need to thrive in the 21st century is not on the screen, people argue; there are things it is not on the screen, argue from now to tomorrow, you can\’t find it on the screen. Create a family reading time as the children are reading, you are reading? What are you reading?

The parents in the academy already understand that you carry your book, your children carry their book. You also have books and you read. Be a model. Be an example of reading by filling your home with reading materials. Let there be books. Let there be magazines. when my children come back, one of the things I excite them is a family reading plan. There is a time like 30 minutes. It is really in time and it is one hour. They are excited. They look forward to it. Sometimes we are reading and then from reading we get into gist and everybody talks about what it is that they are reading and tells the story and all of that. My children spend just for everything that they get that is a budget. So, how many books they would buy with it. So, how many books can we buy with it? Very important. Be a model. Be an example of that reading. Create an atmosphere that shows how important reading is.

4.Create an atmosphere that shows how important reading is: Is reading a second thought or is reading just something that comes after every other thing has happened? We have done this, we have done that. I remember one time, we traveled and we got to the airport and there were two boxes full of books and the person that was checking in said books, you guys came to shop for books? Yes, we actually came to shop for books. You want to be able to actually give your children access to the world and books gives you that real access to the thoughts of men. I like the way that my pastor said, wisdom is in the things that others know that you do not know. That is what wisdom is wisdom is not in what you know. You are limited by yourself. And I said last week that when you parent by yourself, you will be limited, when you parent by knowledge, you are limitless. One thing about developing a lifelong learning if not making it fun delivering a lifelong learner is to make it fun and not frustrating. A child who sees learning as fun will naturally develop the joy of learning. I see some parents, their disciplinary strategy is go upstairs and read and I am wondering really?

5.Allow your child to have control of their own learning experiences. The more control and input you are able to provide the child with respect to their learning environment, activities and stuff, the more engaged and motivated the child will become to learn. Your child will only learn to the extent that you actually are able to give them control of their own learning experiences. How are you giving the child control? How do you even begin to give your child control? Do they understand how they learn? That will help your child create an experience that they love. It is not just about you, it is also about your child. How engaged are the things that you are also sharing? How engaging are they? These are the things that will motivate your child to actually learn.

6. Introduce and encourage different learning styles for your child: The problem is, do we even know the different learning styles? If your child cannot learn using the different learning styles, your child will struggle with learning. Now, how do you even begin to do that? How you can do that, it is simply by helping your child understand their learning preferences and style. Because until you do that, you cannot teach your child how to learn with using other learning preferences. So you need to understand that is very important. So we all have that learning style that is dominant and then we have this learning style that is a mix, but the truth of the matter is that, if you want to help your child, you need to start by helping them discover how to learn. The moment my son learned how he learned, he became a superstar. As in, it was just boom, glaring and if you take your child how to learn, if you help your child understand how they learn, it becomes easy for your child to assimilate concepts. And when it comes to learning style and dominance, you start from the dominant learning style. I was sharing with the parents in the inner circle and I said that my children are very good with my maths. They don\’t use calculators. I remember sharing this because there was a conversation on a particular tool of the day that we are given to do.

7. Use game-based learning: Now, using games-based learning as an education tool that provides opportunity for deeper learning and develop non-cognitive skills. It helps to motivate your child to learn also. One of the tools that we used for our son to actually understand the skill of learning is using game based learning. So, game-based learning was one of the things we do. What kind of games did we use? We use games like scrabble, we use games like chess, and we use games like Lego pieces. So different kind of games but these games will be dependent on the kind of learning style your child has. So, if you have a child who is an auditory learner, and you do a lot of Legos, your child might actually not be able to get the game based learning styles and assets to actually learn through it. So, you need to understand who your child is first before you can use this strategy. So, you can see that everything rises and falls on how your child learns and who they are.

This can sound overwhelming but it is like something you are intentional. You understand that it is something that is on the go. So, what are we what we do in the inner circle program is to share daily tools that help children learn daily without really knowing that they are learning. For instance today, we are doing a treasure hunt. Hunt the children are going to be learning a lot about patients, about focus, about a lot of things but yet they are not reading. The parents are not overwhelmed with sit down, I need to teach you but the children are learning. So when you make every day a teachable and a learnable moment it changes the tides for your child. So, when we are out, we with the twins, many of the times, we pass somewhere and we say, so what do you think about this and all of that and then there is a twist. Learning starts to happen. so learning is every minute, every second, every moment we are learning.

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Today\’s blog post is one that I am particularly excited about. So buckle up your seatbelts because you are in for a ride.

Understanding yourself as a parent is one of the first prerequisites for effective parenting but let’s start by answering these questions:

•Did you get married with the intent of, \’I have just reached the age of marriage so having kids is the next step.
•Were you prepared to have a child?
• Did you ask the right questions before you started having children?
I guess not many of you will answer yes to these questions.

One of the things that I have come to realize is that many people were never prepared to become parents rather they all stumbled on parenting, they just became parents. So I can say that parenting happened to many of us.

I started my parenting journey looking for solutions and when I found the solution I realized that so many parents were also like me struggling to do things differently.

Many of us were on that table, where we started parenting without any inkling of what to expect. We do not even understand who we were. Understanding who you are as a parent is a big deal for effective parenting.

The question is, who are you? Are you able to answer this question. When we ask this question many people will typically answer that “I am a medical doctor, I am a teacher” But that\’s not who they are. The question of who you are is a very key and valid question that every single one of us must answer before we become parents.

The major problem we have today is that we do not even understand why we became parents in the first place. We are not aware of why we needed to be parents. We just became parents because it was time. So as a parent, one of the things I have found is the place of being able to see, to understand why you are doing what you are doing. Until you understand you are why you will keep going back and forth on your journey.

So I am asking you today again, Why did you become a parent? Forget about the why before you read this post, think about the why after you\’ve read this post. What would be your why? What would be that thing that would jolt you back to reality to be able to put things in perspective?

One of the reasons why children are born in the world is because we are to co-create with God. I heard one of my mentors say that “when there\’s a problem in the world, a child is sent for impact. If we do not understand that part of why we became parents is to co-create with God, then we will also miss the essence of being parents and that starts from where we begin to understand ourselves. How much do you know about yourself?

As parents, one of the things that happened is that we repeat what we know best. And most often than not, what we know best is from our experiences. What we know best is from the integral part of our values, our belief system, and the things that we hold through to parenting. These are all going to come from our experiences.

According to science, we all make inferences from our subconscious and our subconscious is formed between ages 0 to 7. Everything that happened to you while you were being parented is who you became and the lack of understanding of who you are is what drives us to do things against our better judgement.

There is no parenting without you understanding where you come from.
What are the areas that we need to look at when it comes to understanding ourselves better? What are the things that we must understand to become better parents? You cannot become a better parent without understanding a lot of the things that happened to you as a child? We can only parent better to the degree of what we know about our past, our emotional defenses, and our psychological struggles. This will determine how much we are creating a smoother or a more rugged road in raising our children.

“Your past, your experiences, your emotional defenses, your psychological struggles, are determining factors for how you will parent better today. “

Your past, your experiences, your emotional defenses, your psychological struggles, are determining factors for how you will parent better today.

What are the things that you would need to look at or you will need to find that you need to put together in perspective when it comes to parenting your children better?

1. Self-Awareness on Parenting Ideologies:
   a. Where do your ideas on parenting come from? That\’s the first question you want to ask yourself today. They come from how you were raised, they come from who you became, the past, where are they coming from?

Many of the times, I say over and again that in parenting the reason we are to question the things that the previous generation has done isn\’t to discredit the previous generation. It is to help us credit a better system for the generation to come. If we cannot question what was done to us, then we cannot become better as a people. So your ability to question the parenting ideologies that you already know is coming from the place of self-awareness. When you become self-aware, when you are on a journey to understand yourself, it gives you leverage over a whole lot of other things that you think that you know.

Other Self Awareness Questions:
b. Where do your expectations about children come from?
c. What would I like to change about my parenting today?
d. What does my child need from me today as a parent that is different from what I needed from my parents?
e. Is it possible that I am parenting a different kind of child from the child that I was to my parents?

2. My personality and my temperament:
This is another part of you that you want to understand as a parent to be able to effectively parent your child. What are your personality and Temperament? Temperament is one of the most powerful influences in your life, however, temperament is not destiny, but for you to make progress you need to understand that about yourself. The more you understand who you are, the more you can make changes that are required in different aspects of your life to become a better person. Have you been able to find out if you are tended towards being melancholic, choleric , sanguine, or phlegmatic in your behavior?

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Have you ever questioned yourself, why do I act this way because this is going to affect the kind of parent that you eventually would become or you eventually are because now we are talking to parents and not people who want to become parents? Your personality is a very big deal. Do you know that who you have become, how you learn, your temperament will affect how you raise children?

Do you also know that who your parents were their temperament, their personality affected how they raised you? There’s something that we call the parenting advantage. So if your parents worked on becoming a better version of themselves, you probably had a parenting advantage over the next person. Parenting advantage can put you in a better place than your mates, just because you had forward-thinking parents. Now the question is, what parenting advantage will you give your children because you were their parent?

3. Learning Style: One of the biggest struggles I see parents have is not understanding how their children learn, but beyond that understanding how they learn. Many of us do not know how we learn. We do not know whether we are kinesthetic, Auditory, or Visual learners. One of the things that happens in our learning style class is that, parents come to that class to first understand themselves and when they get into that class they are humbled. They understand why what happened to them academically in school even happened to them in the first place. They begin to understand where a lot of things happened to them in the past. They begin to understand why some of them were called an olodo. They begin to understand that they probably were kind of such learners and they didn\’t find the space where they could learn from their environment and of course, they ended up not learning.
So one of the biggest challenges we have is not even that we do not understand who we are parenting, its that we do not understand who we are, to be able to parent who we are parenting. So you are teaching your child from your style of the learning. You do not even know what their style of learning style is, so you can really make so much impact and progress.

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4.Emotional Awareness: You need to understand who you are emotionally. A lot of us do not know how to handle emotions in any way. How are you aware? What are you aware of when it comes to emotions? Do you know how you react to incidences? Do you know your emotional triggers? Part of what we did in the course we did last month “ Becoming an emotionally intelligent parent “ is for parents who understand who they are emotionally. A lot of us do not understand who we are emotionally, we are just parenting. we are just going along and just moving. Who are you emotionally? Do you know your emotional triggers? Do you know how you respond to different kind of emotions?

5. Your development and attachment style: There are different types of attachment but the one that is at the forefront is the secure attachment style, that\’s the best. That\’s the one that we advocate for. There\’s the avoidance attachment style and insecure attachment style, there are about four to five of them. Many of us do not understand the kind of attachment style that we had. We shared this extensively in our course becoming an emotionally intelligent parent and I shared in that course how your attachment style affects how you parent your children.

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How negative disciplinary measures like flogging, yelling can hinder your child from learning: This is one topic that a lot of people fight, I remember that whenever this is shared in our Facebook community parents would always revolt by saying things like “we were flogged and we turned out okay” “are you saying that we shouldn\’t discipline our children” etc.

When you flog and yell at your child you not only damage their brain, you also change their brain connectivity

They often fail to realize that when we use negative disciplinary measures, we are not just damaging the child’s brain we are also changing how the brain connects. I was reading something recently when I was preparing for our upcoming course “understanding your child\’s learning style ( you can enroll here), I was reading something about learning disabilities and it has been linked to trauma. Some children who were traumatized from the experiences of flogging and yelling lost their fine motor skills and this hindered their learning. So the things that we do can hinder a child from learning.

When you are yelling you are either growing aggression or you are growing shame. People have said and asked the question, does this mean that we cannot raise our voice or we cannot say something, No!

In our No yelling challenge we have what we call the yell – O – meter, this yell meter differentiates what is yelling from other forms of communication, there is a level of your yelling that becomes bad.

If you are trying to make yelling an alarm system, it is okay. When a child is trying to run into the road for instance, of course, it is only natural that you raise your voice to say, no stop. What we are talking about is consistent, yelling of correction that we do. When we are constantly screaming, I know of children who are perpetually under siege because they need to do assignments every day by their parents. Their parents are constantly killing them just because they are trying to learn. So assignment time, the child already is scared of coming. The child is scared of going to school because in school they shut the child down, the child is scared of coming home because at home you have one cane in your hand.

Children do not learn in fear because the moment the brain senses fear, the learning center of the brain shuts down. A signal is passed to the brain that tells it, shut down this it is not a learning time.

Let me tell you a story about one of my primary school classmates, he shared this on our Facebook community and tagged me. When he was tagging me he said he was in class with people like Wendy Ologe who were so smart and made it look like I was dumb, on reading this it did not make me smile, I felt really bad.

I was disturbed that people were made to feel less of themselves because of other people who could learn better and that was something that worried me. Currently, the same guy who was considered “dumb” lectures in one of the biggest universities in Scotland.

He\’s a Ph.D. holder but this young guy was demeaned for not learning the only thing that saved him was because his parents gave their support and were able to find help for him. When you shame a child for not learning the child shuts down. We need to understand that yelling doesn\’t help a child, it doesn\’t help a child try harder, he shuts down the child from trying. And then for the children who even begin to try, they do not have the joy of learning. This is something we call “learned helplessness” in psychology, learned helplessness is one of the things that is currently besieging our generation today, where there is no zeal to learn. I know so many people, not one, not two, not even three who have read nothing since they came out of school despite that some of them made a 2.1, some of them even made the first class.

These people just decided that they would learn and then went on to cram, the brain naturally will stretch and learn, but they did not develop the joy to learn. There is a joy to be able to learn. They did not develop it and immediately that happened it shut them down. So they were just motivated to finish school and get a job and that is where they died because if you are not learning you are dying.

Flogging induces some kind of fear and also inflicts physical pain. So a lot of our children are not learning, they are just cramming because they have been forced. This explains why we lack innovation, this is why we lack people who can’t think through processes. This is why when they leave school they learn nothing and there are a lot of dead adults today, who learned absolutely nothing. I know someone who told me, he said coach the only time I started reading again, was when I joined the inner circle. I haven\’t read anything since I left school, but I left school with a 2.1.

The idea is to build a child to learn to become more, to have the zeal to learn. The greatest gift you can give to a child is the gift of learning, so if you give your child the gift of learning, you have given your child everything because trust me you will not be able to teach your children everything but when you give your child the gift of learning, it means that your child will have the interest to learn.

So is your child interested in learning or does your child just want to pass the exam? That cane in your hand is just a quick fix.

Now one can beat skills into a child. I have said that over and again and it is unfortunate that even in our schools we still have these things happening over and again. We have untrained people who just believe that the beating they give them made them what would they become. When you engage in corporal punishment as a means to make your child learn you are simply being lazy. Let me say that again when you engage in corporal punishment as a means to make your child learn, you are simply being lazy. You are just looking for a quick fix.

FOUR LEARNING BARRIERS
● the emotional barriers
● the knowledge barriers
● the developmental barriers  
● the motivational barriers.

1. Emotional barriers: What are these emotional barriers? Fear of failure, fear of lack of focus, resistance to change. Let me talk a bit about resistance to change. Part of what we were given with the kind of learning that we had growing up is the resistance to change.? That is why you are not growing and why you are where you are because you are resistant to change. One of the things that happened to dinosaurs is not because they were the weakest of the animals it\’s because they were just unable to adapt to change. Any animal that cannot change, would be lost. Forget all the conversations you are having today online and all the arguments. If you are not learning, you are going to be kicked out of the system.

2. Knowledge barriers: Knowledge barriers are another barrier to learning. What do we know? What do we know that can help? children struggle to learn. Unfortunately what you do not understand is that even though your parent did not have to learn, you are paying the price, you are paying the price for your parent\’s assumption today. Just put yourself in all of the things that I am sharing today. Does that sound like you? You are paying the price for all of those things they did not know, for the things they did the things the wrong way. We are paying the price for every single one of us. So when we say oh but we turned out okay. At what cost? Seek knowledge. intentions are not enough. You can love your children and kill your children. I have said that once again so loving your child is not enough, oh I love my child, oh why are you telling me how to parent my child? you love my child more than me?. Unfortunately, I cannot actually because you do not understand what love is. Love is being able to understand who you are parenting. Being able to learn from the place of knowledge and helping your child become better. In your mind, you think love is giving your child what it is that they need.

3. Developmental barriers: If there are developmental barriers, children will struggle with learning difficulties will have learning difficulties and it is not an indication of intellectual levels. So in the understanding, your child\’s learning style course, part of what we are going to be teaching is developmental barriers, learning disabilities, and brain development. Do you know that it is been stated that yelling and beating a child are environmental factors that affect brain development, including poor nutrition as well? I was watching a movie called Night School with Kevin Hart as the lead actor movie where he went back to school but his parents did not understand what he was going through. He was dyslexic, heavily dyslexic, he couldn\’t read, he couldn\’t write and this guy went to school, dropped out of school, when he had to go back until he had to go back again to school he was now diagnosed with dyslexia and imagine if the parents knew earlier on they would have helped him and all the things that he went through would not have gone through. So the lack of knowledge of his parents, he paid the price. Your child will pay price with a lack of knowledge. So let\’s move quickly so at that class there is a whole lot of developmental barriers. So we are going to be sharing how you can also help your child.

4. Motivational barriers: What are the things that can cause these motivational barriers? Lack of seeing the big picture. Since parents do not share the big picture about learning, there is no real motivation. The motivation is just this child needs to pass an exam and do well so they can make their parents proud. That is what most children will tell you. So the big picture is not clear.

5. Personal barriers: There are personal barriers; how we were created can be a barrier to learning. We were doing the review in the inner circle of the current book we are reading, “Why you act the way you do” by Tim Lahaye. You must have read that you can read that book several times but trust me when you read a book in the inner circle, it doesn\’t sound the same. A book read in the inner circle is different from a book read outside.
(Book a slot to join the inner circle here)

Learning styles: Your child\’s personality and your child\’s temperament. Do you know that if you are raising a sanguine who is a kinesthetic learner you are going to struggle more than someone who is raising a melancholic auditory learner? It is not the same. So you need to understand who you are parenting. The question is how many of us even know who we are parenting?
Who are you parenting?
Do know your child\’s personality?
Your barrier. In our upcoming “Understanding Your Child’s learning style, we will show how your child learns and how this can be a barrier.

Do you know that different kinds of learners learn differently? Your Child\’s personality and their temperament: Your child\’s personality is temperament like I said earlier when you have a sanguine child or you have a choleric child. A choleric child will probably be more focused than your sanguine child. Do you know that happens in the first place? Do you know why you can help your child who is sanguine create more focus? These are the questions we should be asking. These are the questions we should be looking at. So learning goes beyond I just want my child to top the class. When you  really teach your children the joy of learning, you do not need to be there for your children to do well. You do not need to be there for them to try to learn. You do not need to force them to learn. So if you find yourself in a place where you are forcing your children, oh you need to read if you do not read, oh this will happen and all of that, that is you, you are parenting from the place of fear.

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Pay #10,000 to 0509494057 (GT Bank) The Intentional Parent Academy. Send proof of payment through WhatsApp chat to 08129687040.Or You can JOIN online via this link.
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You will also have access anytime to the course as you enroll because this course will happen on our online academy:

Parents who have ever taken this course always say \” this is a course they wish they took a long time ago\”.

One of the things that have become a big deal in parenting a child in the 21st century is Focus. Now we are seeing children who are struggling to concentrate, children whose attention span have become even a lot shorter. I was reading a research recently and it says that the attention span for teenagers have gone down to a few seconds per time, because of excessive exposure to screen and a lot of other distractions.

Studies have shown that smartphones not only remove focus but also disturb the way the brain is developing. Right now we are having children who were born with smartphones under their armpits, they are digital nomads. These children come into the space and they do not even understand what it means not to have internet. They do not understand what it means not to have a smartphone. We learned it but they are digital nomads, we were here when the smartphone came in and unfortunately nobody taught us how to parent the smartphone generation.

Which is the biggest challenge of this century. This is that we do not even understand how to navigate, how to balance the training between the children born in this time and what it is that we have. This is why parenting education is no longer negotiable. Our parents transitioned into the times, there were no major changes, there were no major hits. But right now, we are not just a transitioning into the time, the times have changed, you must always put this in perspective in your parenting.

So the question remains; how do we evolve this education for these digital nomads?

How do we help them create more focus? I was teaching the parents in our inner circle program and I said to them, that if you do not build focus and concentration in your children we are going to get to a point where they would need to pay heavily to manage distractions in their children. I am a distraction manager, so there is something called distraction management, I know families that I work with, and the major challenge that they have is focused on concentration.

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When we talk about concentration, it says that the average four to five-year-old can focus on task two to five minutes times their age. Can you do the math?

If you have a five-year-old, the average focus for that five-year-old is two to five minutes times their age. So your five years old is supposed to have at least two minutes. if we calculate on based on two minutes, that\’s at least a ten minutes focus attention span. Right now as we speak, we do not even have toddlers focusing more than a minute. So we are talking about 10 minutes originally put together, but we do not even have children who can focus anymore.
How many of us are noticing that this is a challenge?
How many of us are taking out time to help our children build focus?
How many of us are taking out time to help our children build concentration?

When you come into the academy, one of the first things that I tell you is that the things that your children need to learn to thrive are not on the screen. I was analyzing something recently, about the world tech gurus. The world tech gurus didn\’t become the world tech gurus because they were exposed to screen, they became the world tech gurus because they could think. One way parents justify excessive screen time is by saying they saying that they want their child to be tech-savvy.

I was listening to a documentary on the Japanese children and I listened to how they were grouped from zero to seven and in all of those ages zero to seven, they tried not to introduce the screen. Also, these children do not start formal school until they are about six or seven years of. By the time they now take them to the classroom, boom they are like machines. They teach them manners first, they teach them how to think first before they take them to the tech world. Unfortunately what we are doing now is the reverse. So we are now teaching our children how to be in the tech world without the basics that they need. Very interesting turn and that is why places like Japan, Chinese are leading the world tech system.

Mark Zuckerberg ,Bill Gate and all of the tech giants in Silicon Valley didn\’t become the world giants because they were techier than others, they became the world tech giants because they could think, they were better thinker. So focus functions as a gateway to higher functioning skills.

A child cannot assess higher forms of learning especially memory, because memory is what leads to deeper comprehension. Without the ability to pay attention to something, children are not going to be able to process information, they will not be able to consolidate into this memory and this means that they will not be able to interpret, comprehend, analyze, criticize and synthesize information.

How To You Help Your Children Learn Focus?

1. Teach your children to think: Many of the times a child does something and you are very quick to jump in into correction, you are teaching your child how not to think. Mistakes are one of the biggest tools to use in parenting. You see those mistakes that you are angry that it is happening, they are one of the most profound tools that you need in parenting today. So if your child makes a mistake and you understand that you need to teach your children how to think, you will get to a point where you are giving room for your children to think.o

2. Teach your children how to deal with distractions.

Many of the times, what we do is that we teach our children not to be distracted but we do not teach them how to deal with distraction. Distraction will never go away. You cannot eliminate distraction no matter. Beyond eliminating distractions, you need to teach your children how to deal with distractions. Distraction is never going to go away completely. We need to teach them how to refocus as soon as they are distracted.Help your children practice mindfulness, when you get distracted, how do you put yourself back to start again?

3. You need to understand your child\’s learning style. In helping your child improve concentration, you will need to understand how your child learns. When I started parenting, I struggled with this. I have a set of twins, my daughter started reading as early as four but my son was struggling, and I didn\’t know that I was probably teaching my children with my learning style. If you cannot understand how a child learns, you cannot teach them how to focus and how to manage distraction, and also how to put the concentration in. We have been able to help him to improve his auditory learning style, his visual learning style since he is a dominant aesthetic learner.

“In helping your child improve concentration, you will need to understand how your child learns.“

We have a lot of children that we call olodo. For a lot of those of you who are Nigerians, olodo is a Nigerian term used to describe a dumb child, and many of the times, I have found that it is not the child\’s fault, it is actually that we do not understand how this child learns, so we are constantly struggling on how we can teach this child. This is why we have the course understanding your child\’s learning style in the academy, where you can learn and understand how your child learns. Now one of the things that this helped me do was that it did not only help me with his learning, right now he\’s a star in school but it helped me also to manage misbehaviors. I got to understand that discipline is teaching but we are constantly struggling because we are not teaching. So when you understand that it\’s teaching, then you need to understand who you are parenting.

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4. Let your children read. Reading has been found as a way to teach your children how to focus and concentrate. Let them read big texts, large words. As soon as the twins turned 10, we started introducing them to reading a 400 pager book on purpose. It is going to build a lot of concentration. Now if your child hasn\’t started reading at all, read to them. The more you can read to your child, the more your child can see it and retain it. If your child has started reading, please create a system where your children are constantly reading, it is going to help build a lot of focus. So when we are talking about focus. We are talking about how it can help your child put a lot in perspective. If you do not build it as a skill, when your children are young, they will continue to struggle with it even as adults.

5. Teach your children how to boost brainpower.

How do I teach my children to boost brain power you ask? The kind of games your children play, Puzzles, crosswords can help boost their brainpower. If your children play a game that lets them think, your children are going to be better positioned to focus. If your child is not very good with focus, the first thing you get is a building block, a tiny lego piece. I am talking about from like 7, 8 of age your child is going to feel very frustrated because it takes a lot of focus.
Do not worry about what is happening when this is happening, do not worry when the child is throwing a tantrum and all of that. You need to gradually build this focus one step at a time. So even when you have toddlers, who go to play on a playground, get them to name the shapes that they see on the floor. it is a way to build focus.
When it comes to every child, every child is uniquely different. So because every child is uniquely different that is why you will need to understand who your child is, how your child learns and what personality your child is. It helps you parents better with peace and calm.

Starting from the 28th of March 2022, we\’ll be taking hundreds of parents on this journey of discovering how their children learn and strategies on they can accelerate their learning.

Do you know how your child learns? Do you want to know? You can join our upcoming class on Understanding your child\’s learning style.

To register for the Learning Style Course:
Pay #8,000 to 0509494057 (GT Bank) The Intentional Parent Academy. Send proof of payment through WhatsApp chat to 08129687040.Or you can join online via this link. https://selar.co/Learningstylecourse

On the 10th of March my birthday, the first early bird will end and you pay more. You will also have access anytime to the course as you enroll because this course will happen on our online academy: Parents who have ever taken this course always say \” this is a course they wish they took a long time ago\”.

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In this blogpost I will be sharing on how to raise and protect your child in the digital world.

Navigating digital parenting is something that a lot of parents are worried about. Parents are constantly panicking about all the drama that comes with raising children in this digital world. The truth of the matter is that this is not going to end, we are going to have to deal with this for a long while. When we talk about digital parenting, many of the times people look at it to be separate from parenting. Digital parenting is simply parenting in today\’s world. A lot of people want to shy away from the fact that digital parenting is a thing, but here we are. We need to raise and protect our children in today’s world.

So, the question is” how are we going to be protect our children? What exactly are we doing?

Recently , a parent said to me ” I really do not know what to do with my children as regards the media” Its important you realise that parents who keep an eye on their young children and their teenagers online are referred to as digital parents. You agree with me that many of our children were born with digital devices under their arm and one of the biggest parenting tragedies we have today is what we call the knowledge barriers.

According to research there are three different styles of digital parenting. By reading this blogpost, you will find out which one you are.
There are three different styles of digital parenting;
1.Limiting digital parent.
2.Enabling digital parent.
3.Mentoring digital parent.

Before we delve into what kind of digital parent you are , please answer these question:
•Are You a limiter
•Are you an enabler
or Are you a mentor of your child\’s digital experiences? You need to decide which you are and by the time we are done reading this blogpost you will be able to understand where you are and also understand what you should be doing to help your children even fare better.

1. The Enabling Digital Parents:
   As an enabling digital parent, you believe that a time spent on digital technology, on screen or TV are all learning times. Now what enabler parents do is that; they give their children access to all manner of devices ; it could be a game console, TV, Ipad, Smartphones, all sorts of devices. An enabler parent just thinks that, well ”I am going to give my children access to these devices. There is a lot to learn online and my children should have this access to explore. So, they usually give their children access to be able to take initiative on what to do and what not to do. The enablers do not really understand why a child should be limited with technology, after all they are born in this world. They are tech savvy, just allow them to just be in the tech community.

2. The Limiting Digital Parents:

The idea of the limiting digital parentis the opposite of the Enablers. They have learned about the negative sides of being online, being on screen and they have decided that their children would have none of that after all when they were growing up, they have zero to no access to smartphones. My children are not going to have access and it’s not going to kill them. What they do is to shut down their children from digital technology. Their children do not have access to technology and screens . They have the opinion that limiting them is the best thing that can happen to them.

3.The Mentoring Digital Parent:

The mentoring digital parent is the balance between the enablers and the limiters. The mentoring digital parents are the ones that have the media plan in their homes. There is a plan on what should happen and how it should happen when it comes to media. Now, while both the Limiters and the Enablers do not have any form of guide, even the ones that are say that their children don\’t have access (which is almost unrealistic because your children are going to have access using other places ,limiting them is not your best bet)

Both Limiters and Enablers do not have any plan in place. They are not thinking of teaching their children anything. All they know is well, the internet is here. For the Enablers just go ahead and just have access. For the limiters, no you cannot have access at all. Unfortunately, with these two styles of digital parenting, the children eventually gain access to what happens online and they get confused because there was no plan for the exposure to that world. The family does not believe in parenting with a media plan.

During the pandemic, we came up with the media plan in the Academy, it is called The Family Media Plan. There were a lot of questions that were coming to me. People asked questions like : when should I give my children telephone to use? At what age?

To answer those barrage of questions ,I hosted a live session on our YouTube channel, Click HERE to watch that session.

How To Raise And Protect Your Child In The Digital World:

1. Set Rules For Yourself.
   In the media plan we have a section where you are to state rules and things that must be acceptable to your family per time.
   Things to think about before you post. Is this content appropriate?Set your rules, you may want to avoid partial nudity of shots. This would depend on your family values. In my family , we have a rule where there is no partial nudity of shots of my children , my husband and I anywhere online including swim wears and all of that. It is a decision, It is a rule.
   You can make yours for your family as well.
   Do you want to post full frontal face shots?
   Do you want to post an angle?.
   Are you sharing images with people you know and trust?
   You need to begin to review what it is that you take out there.

2. The Devil Is In The Detail.
Strangers learn more about your children from the single photo that you share. Where they are found during certain hours , the school they attend etc You need to set these rules and understand details.

What details do you want to be out there? I see a lot of people who snap pictures with their children school uniforms, tiny details and by the time I zoom in and you can see the name of their school, you can look at the location, share the location and all of that. Tagging pictures to locations. These are things that you might want to check. And while you might want to share proud moments and all of that, consider not putting in a lot of details those tiny details.
Every digital photograph contains metadata that record time, data, GPS co-ordinates and all of that. Sometimes when I take a picture and don’t want people to know where it is my picture was shared from, I simply screenshot it and share instead. When you screenshot a picture to share, it limits the amount of information that can be gotten from that photograp, it also ensures that the image resolution is low, this lowers the chances of the images being used. This is if you are a family that is conscious about the details that is out there.

3. Ask Before Sharing:
By the time my children became older, when we could have conversations on digital parenting and all of the things that we need to do , I made sure to ask my children if I it was okay to share their picture.

Do you know that there are pictures of our children we have shared that in the next 30 – 40 years, those pictures would not be okay to be online. These children are digital citizens and it is important that we consider these things. When you ask them, it also means that they understand that they cannot just take anybody\’s stuff share , it also gives that respect. Have an open conversation about what they are happy to share and the things that they want you to actually put out there.

Sometimes, I do a video in the home and my children will be the first to say, this is not a video that should go out and because I have taught the.I say things like ”nobody shows anybody this picture”, it is a family picture.We take a lot of pictures in my home, we share pictures on social media as well but we are also very conscious of what it is that we share. So, when your child is old enough ask for permission, this establishes the privacy first mentality. Where you need to set up a healthier relationship with technology.

4. Have An Ongoing Conversation About What Your Children Are Doing Online.
Because we have a media plan that is very rich and reviewed at every point in time, we are able to have an ongoing conversation on technology. What is happening online, what they need to do?
We need to understand some of these things and this would happen according to our family values. Again, this is not me saying that this is how it works in my house come and do it the way it works in my house, No. I am saying you must parent from the place of your value but the question is do you even know what that value is? So, what are they doing online? What is happening? You need to keep track. Know what your child is doing per time.

A parent reached out to me and said, my teenager is always reading books online, I don\’t even know what it is that they are read, I don\’t have the time to even check what it is that they are doing. You are not too sure that is a book that your teenager is reading. Do you know the number of children who are disguised into pornography today? It is very important that we look out for it. No matter the password that you have on any device, without connection you will miss it.

5. Educate Yourself.
I see a lot of parents say, I don\’t really know how these things work, I am not tech savvy, i cant navigate these devices. When you say things like this, your children call you BBT(Born Before Technology) ,they just look at you as someone who cannot even operate a simple smart TV. Do not let your children call you born before technology. Learn how to use tech. Learn how to put a lot of things in perspective as regards the use of technology. If you are teaching a child and you are parenting in the digital world, please note, you cannot do that without first educating yourself. If you don\’t learn, you will make a total mess of your journey. A lot of us do not even know that our children watch porn on our own devices and you can\’t find it. You can\’t find it because you are not even interested. You don\’t even know what to find. You do not even want to understand how to create a media plan. How to create a system in your home. You don\’t want to want to learn. One of the things you owe your child is to learn about their world. Stop telling me that it is not my time, I don\’t know how to use all these things. You are being culturally unintelligent. Cultural intelligence teaches us that we are able to look at the culture of other people and begin to actually learn it. So please stand up today and learn it. You need to educate yourself.

6. Create A family Media Plan.
Your family media plan is what puts everything in perspective. With a family media plan, your children will be able to understand what is acceptable in your home and what is not acceptable when it comes to media.

When my children’s friends are around many of the times and they want to watch something and you hear them say, it\’s not allowed to watch in our home and we don\’t also watch it for now. Because we have a media plan spelled out and have an ongoing conversation on why. We are not just telling our children, this is how, we are telling them, this is why because like I often say, he who knows why is greater than he who knows how. So, if your child only knows your hows, your child will try to understand the why and in the understanding the why, if they have never learnt it, they might mess up the process of the why. So, he who knows why is better than he who knows how. Your media plan is what gives your children the “why” system. Why am I doing this? Why have I been told not to go online alone? That is what your media plan presents to you. And then in that media plan it creates a strategy. It creates a strategy that will help your children understand what it is.

After reading through the Family Media Plan we launched in 2020 A parent reached out to me to say…. \”Hello mam, I have retrieved my daughter\’s phone and apologized to her, we are starting over Wendy! God bless you for writing this guide you don\’t know how many families you have helped!

If you gave your child any gadget without a guide ; please retrieve it and start all over . Get a copy of our Family Media Plan to help and guide you create a plan.

If you are about to hand your teen a phone ; this guide will be the best thing that will happen to you and your teen.

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Every child learns to lie until you can teach them the value of honesty!! Flogging a child for lying doesn\’t stop them from lying, they only learn how to lie without you getting to know😁

There are better ways to teach a child how to stop lying…

In this blog post, I will respond to a question that I have gotten several times in the academy “Help, My Child Is Always Lying”

When parents say that they have never lied, I smirk because that in itself is the biggest lie of the century .😁😁

How Does Lie Start
Lying starts as a basic survival skill, everyone wants to survive including children, toddlers. So between the ages of 2-5, they learn to bend the truth. No child wants to be beaten, punished, or face the consequences of their actions, so what they do in a bid to avoid this is to lie. As much as this looks like nothing, to your child, it is a big deal

Lying is a behavior, so this implies that parents would need to teach their kids that lying should not be a coping mechanism. It is a skill to teach your child how not to lie and these skills are called rational skills: skills that children need to learn on how lying cannot serve them.

3 Reasons Why Children Lie:

1. Fantasy: Between ages 2 to 4, a child starts fantasizing
2. Bragging: Children lie for bragging rights, this is a result of low self-esteem and peer pressure.
3. Preventing Negative Consequences.

Lying is one of the earliest lessons we learn in life, and it is one of our first self-realization and reaction. When you beat a child for lying, they don\’t automatically stop lying, the device is a way to lie better. Beating a child gives you instant gratification but does that serve the child? They become hypocrites and master the art of lying.

Age-by-Age Guide to Lying

Lying is a sign of healthy development in a Child, It\’s an important developmental milestone in Children, research shows that 4-5-year-olds lie every 2 hours, so lying is normal but we are not encouraging you to ignore it. It is your responsibility to teach honestly.

From toddlers to preschoolers, they learn to exaggerate things that can be seen as a lie as well, they express their rich imagination through exaggeration. When you hit a Child for being creative, their creativity is killed.

5 to 7-year-Olds, they lie to escape or get what they want the responsibility. At this age, friends are becoming important to them so they also lie to brag or tell a feeble.

8 and Above, at this age lie, has become more intentional. They lie to impress people, they gain social standing.

What Can I Do Raise Honest Children
1. Figure Out Your Child\’s Motivation For Lying :Until you figure out why your child is lying, you can never deal with the problem of lying because lying is inherent in that Child. Start by considering how you respond when a child slips, how do you respond when your child makes mistakes, this will determine if your child will lie to you or not. If your disciplinary measures are too harsh, your Child will escape them. Humans are greater to survive, so they will do their best to avoid it.

2. You Must Nurture Self Esteem In Your Child: Confident Children are less likely to embellish the truth, so they don\’t lie for bragging or to prove a point. One of the things that erode a child\’s self-esteem is bad discipline, a lot of us are raised with negative discipline and we are doing the same to our children. So most of our parenting process erodes self-esteem that\’s why we have more liars.

3. Teach Your Children By Modelling Honesty: This is an extra effort you need to put in to teach your children honestly. Many parents are chronic liars without realizing it, they tell lies while bragging to their Children that they have never lied. You must model honestly if you want to raise honest Children.

4. Take Away The Infallibility Theory From Your Parenting: If you don\’t take the infallibility theory from your parenting, you will raise hypocrites. If you don\’t take the perfectionist system where you claim to be perfect and your children need to be perfect you will not be able to raise children who have rational skills and can be honest at all times.

5. Learn To Be Honest With Your Emotions: