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 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 […]
This article was first published in the New Vision on March 10, 2021 By Bob Kisiki It really is a matter of priorities, when all’s considered. The kindergarten debate is back, and the views are something to warrant a full study. After the education ministry announced the timeline for the resumption of education institutions, where […]
By Bob Kisiki The debate raged, spanning a surprising fortnight. Oh yes, that’s two weeks of debate which, if you consider, might not be too much, until you discover what the topic was. We debated (on social media and other communication channels), and what we debated was whether a man had the right to raise […]
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 […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on December 21, 2022) Parents and schools react in various ways to the news of teenagers engaging in sexual relationships. Several of them punish these teenagers, but that is not always the solution. Shibba Nkwanzi looks at how parents can protect teenagers from the dangers of […]
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 Joyce Nalunga Birimumaaso The cost of living has been going up since the start of the year. As a result, some of the food items are now out of reach of many households. Some schools have been forced to close the second term prematurely as they can no longer feed the children and there […]
(This article was first published on the New Vision website on February 17, 2023) By Ritah Mukasa Children need constant counselling and guidance to help them achieve their full potential. Mesharch Katusiimeh, dean faculty of arts and social sciences at Kabale University and director of Rwebiita preparatory school in Sheema district says, aside from academics, […]