Growing up, one would always hear about deadbeat fathers/uncles/brothers and all the abuse they came with – emotionally, psychologically and physically too.
Category: Fathers/Child Experience
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I’m Not Happy With My Son’s Progress In Life
I hope the title isn’t uncomfortable for anybody. But I am comforted by this notion that parenting doesn’t come with a manual, so I guess I will write my own parenting guide book. Perhaps this right here will part of that chapter. By the way, he is five (5). Do you guys ever feel like...
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The Journey of Being a Mother. Understanding Motherhood Better.
This year marks my tenth Mother’s Day. It’s also my very first without my primary maternal figure, my grandmother whom we recently lost. While it’s a very sweet day, the touch of bitter that it comes with is never lost on me, I honestly deem the day bittersweet. While I am thankful for the glorious...
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To Raise Well-Rounded Children You Need to First Raise Yourself. (Part 1)
There’s a certain mental shift that happens when a woman first discovers that she is pregnant – it’s almost instantaneous. Taking it upon herself to educate herself about the best ways to better serve the human growing inside her. She awakens to the
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Protect The Boy Child (Part 1)
There is nothing wrong with being raised by a single mother, but as a man, you will always be looking for something that’s missing and that is a father figure. A father affirms you, he affirms who you are and what you are what you are and some of the mannerism
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Dating for ‘Modern Day Single Dads’
“Happy Mother’s Day - 12 May 2019”. A message I received from one of my friends. Apparently, it is still very uncommon in this day and age for men to be the primary caregivers for their children
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Dating A Single Father, Myths and Misconceptions about Single Fathers …
I put the term ‘single father’ inside quotation marks because the concept of single parenting is not as clean-cut as we often think.
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Letter To Neo Enhle Mautloa
Every girl needs her Dad, no matter her age. This is the man that helps guide her in life. The man that teaches her how to stand up for herself.
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To Have Children or Not …
Don’t have kids. Just. Don’t. Do. It.” That’s my standard line to my friends, they also know how serious I am when I say it.
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Mother Is God In The Eyes Of A Child (Part 5)
I smelt like death, smelt like a fresh orphan, smelt like sadness; if ever sadness had a smell, I was it.