Sometimes you just don’t have the space (and grace) to take in some of the things you will hear. 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 yes, teenage children for […]
By Bob G. 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 potential catastrophe waiting to happen. You know, with all […]
Bob Kisiki If there is one thing you cannot deny, it is that we live in a time when loving has taken on new dimensions, and in a society where certain kinds of love are frowned upon. If you visit the one-stop centre of all forms of opinions, attitudes and viewpoints, the Internet – you […]
This article was first published in New Vision Newspaper in December 2021 By Bob Kisiki Isn’t all of life cyclic? Birth, growth, death. Morning, afternoon, evening and night. In some parts, you have winter, autumn, spring and summer. You have budding, growth, harvest and sowing afresh. It’s all about cycles. Nobody gets stuck at one […]
Bob Kisiki In your child’s eyes, the world (as represented by technological advancements) is one step short of perfection — inventing the digital gadget that can store food in its bowels. Once that is done, the gadget will be the equivalent of the machines in the ICU, where one is on life support. They will […]
By Bob Kisiki Admit it, the children were away from school way too long. Much too long. And in all that time, we cannot keep our heads in the lulling sand of consolation thinking nothing changed, yet we know that the one thing necessary for change to occur has been happening all along – time. […]
By Augustus Munyandamutsa With a sigh of relief, parents sent their children back to school last week. We hope that the time spent at home was utilised well by both parents and children. It is one not-so stressed fact that many parents do not know much about their children. Most of what they know about […]
By Dickson Tumuramye As a family, we returned to Kampala from the village on December 30, 2021. We reached home at around 9:00pm. We were all tired and our children went to bed immediately after showering. Thirty minutes later, I checked in the boys’ bedroom and found our eight-year-old son still awake. “David, what are […]
Bob Kisiki Go to town, sir, and buy a gorgeous maroon or black or gold or peach or mauve (my arsenal of colours which only women are equipped to know and isolate one from the other has run out) flowing dress and match it with some equally gorgeous shoes. Get a decent clutch bag (your […]
Bob Kisiki When education shifted from the physical classroom for the ordinary Ugandan child, parents and school managers had lots of adjusting to do. People who had never looked at the laptop as something more than that gadget where they do excel spreadsheets for the end-of-month financial records or the staff timesheets, began to learn […]