By Bob Kisiki It gets to a point where hormones take over. It is just nature; we cannot run away from it. What your little girl did not go through two years ago, she is going through now, and what your little boy did not feel last year, he is feeling right now. It is […]
By Bob Kisiki Paula was unwell. She could barely get herself off the bed, yet she needed medicine. So she sent her daughter, 16, to a pharmacy near her home to get the drugs. Since she did not have cash on her, she told the girl to go withdraw money off her phone, before buying […]
By Bob Kisiki The A’level results were out, and Nambi’s son had passed with 16 points. Contrary to expectation based on precedence, they did not expect that the boy would qualify for a government scholarship, so they fell to applying for private courses in all major universities. Yet, when the Makerere University admission lists came […]
By Bob Kisiki We all need a friend. No, not the many hangers-on who cheer us on and dip their hands in the same plate as us and generally go where we go, until we take the road of discomfort or of tribulation. I do not write about those for just like everything else of […]
By Bob Kisiki Edgar Stephen Egumbye and I grew up around the same time, in the same locality and went to the same university. Although he was my senior by a couple of years, we became so close that whenever one of us wanted to go home to visit our people, the other would also […]
By Maureen Nakatudde Her friends encouraged her to get a boyfriend, but 14-year-old Shakira (not her real name) was nervous about the idea. Yet she felt odd among her friends at a secondary school in Mayuge district because they all had boyfriends. So, in 2020, a friend introduced her to a 25-year-old man, who lured […]
By Bob Kisiki We will call her Anita. She was the first child in her family to go to university, so her parents, especially her mother, who was the sterner of the two parents, looked at Anita as both an asset and a catastrophe waiting to happen. You know, with all the horrors that bedevil […]
By Bob Kisiki You know that it is possible just to give up; very easy. Throw in the towel and say: “To hell! I have had it!” Because there is every reason for a parent to get to that level. The scenarios are various; all horrendous. It is the reason parents have hacked or burnt […]
By Dr John C. Muyingo The world is evolving technologically every day and this should be reflected in the way we teach our children. We must make plans for the next 10 to 15 years. When our children graduate, jobs will have changed. This means as we raise the children of today, we must consider […]
By Bob Kisiki Sometimes you just don’t have the space (and grace) to take in some of the things you will hear. Like the other day, a friend told me about a class she teaches, where children — dot.com children (oh, the very irony!) — did not know how to write and send emails! Oh […]