By Bob Kisiki Trauma is not part-time. Trauma, untreated, can mete out the worst and most enduring damage anyone can face. Trauma is dangerous. And our children are right now living in times when trauma is lurking right around the corner. I will show you. Tasha is only five. She last saw her father, a […]
This article was first published in New Vision on June 4, 2014 I am a father of three children. The two first children are okay but I have a challenge with the youngest child. She is very shy. If she is not used to a person, she avoids eye contact, or even covers her face […]
This article was first published in New Vision on March 13, 2013 I have a daughter who is four years of age. She goes to a kindergarten. Every time she returns from school, she narrates everything she learnt. The only unexciting part is when she begins to bombard us with a chain of ‘why’ questions. […]
By Bob Kisiki My friend is a single father living with three teenagers and a pre-teen. The pre-teen is a boy so are the older two of the three teens. Only one of his children is a girl — and they do not see eye-to-eye. It had not always been like that, though. For the […]
By Bob Kisiki I don’t know much about the various changes that have risen from the protracted coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged various spheres of society, but I know that we are experiencing things we had never dreamed of. Some of these are God-sent; many we wish had never happened, yet some carry a mix […]
By Bob Kisiki The truth is, life as we knew it up to February 2020, may never recur. Sad reality. Besides the fact that we do not have the slightest idea how much longer we have to contend with the rampaging coronavirus, we cannot assume that the world is seated under some shade, waiting for […]
By Bob Kisiki Those people are stressed. And no, I don’t mean it the Ugandan way, where someone waiting for a person who’s terrible at timekeeping will say, “I am stressed; Nakigudde has refused to arrive!” I am talking about real standard stress which, when unattended to, can culminate into something dangerous. My sister told […]
By Bob Kisiki It’s probably the world most controversial topic, seeing as many love to engage in it (orally and otherwise), but at the same time dread being caught engaging in it. It’s the one thing you want your children to understand, but the last thing you want them to engage in, verbally or otherwise. […]
This article was first published in New Vision Newspaper in 2021 Bob Kisiki Let us face it, we cannot say with utmost certainty that we know our children enough to explain where they go and what they do there. No. Before us, they might be the little, innocent angels we want them to be, for […]
By Bob G. Kisiki Growing up in Jinja, Irene knew her cousin, nauma, as her social and moral compass. Whatever nauma did was worth doing; whatever she avoided, Irene avoided, too.Irene made friends whom nauma approved of; no one came close to her whom nauma did not think fit to hang around her little cousin. […]