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Josaya Wasonga

Repeating a school year will affect our children

It was mostly the sole prerogative of teachers to choose the pupils who would repeat a class. Parents concurred with the teachers.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Repeating a school year will affect our children

Helping our children make the best out of this year

Helping our children make the best out of this year

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

The forgotten victims of Covid-19

The forgotten victims of Covid-19

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

For fathers starved of gratitude, appreciation

For fathers starved of gratitude, appreciation

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

A guide for fathers with teenage daughters

Be real: Don’t lie to your daughter that, in your teenage years, you were a saint. Own up. Tell her you don’t want her to make the mistakes you made.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

A guide for fathers with teenage daughters

If God calls me home via Covid-19

As Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

If God calls me home via Covid-19

My son’s battle with Gaucher disease

The rare disease affects 1 in 100,000. And is gotten when one receives a mutated gene from both parents

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

My son’s battle with Gaucher disease

Let’s teach our children to speak out against injustices

Our children are smart. They can see right through us, and our indifference and hypocrisy.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Let’s teach our children to speak out against injustices

Pain of exam uncertainty for parents and candidates

We have been conditioned that school terms - and school calendar years - start and end at certain specific times.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Pain of exam uncertainty for parents and candidates

I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime

Even my parents thought my appetite was to blame. It began affecting my studies.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime

Healthy living: Let’s talk to our children about sex

It is this policy that has enabled my daughter to talk to me even about mundane matters.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Healthy living: Let’s talk to our children about sex

How to speak to your child about sensitive issues

Constant reassurance, even if it is through a few words, will calm down your child’s nerves.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

How to speak to your child about sensitive issues

Grounds where men robbed of dignity, hope meet in despair

Tales of Jacaranda grounds

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Grounds where men robbed of dignity, hope meet in despair

Parent as a teacher: I wish I paid more attention in school

Education has been disrupted at the most crucial time of our daughter’s life; when she is a candidate for the KCPE examinations.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Parent as a teacher: I wish I paid more attention in school

Learning from our daughter how to handle the pandemic

I think that, as parents and grownups, there is a lot that we can learn from our children on how to handle a global pandemic.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Learning from our daughter how to handle the pandemic

Battle of sexes: Girls rule the roost

Girls keep changing the top honours, leaving the boys to play second fiddle.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Battle of sexes: Girls rule the roost

She thinks she has us fooled

The long stories usually start with the stock phrase: “Dah-dee? You won’t believe what happened …”

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

She thinks she has us fooled

Questions that make me go, "mh"

I think it is because we are not the type of parents who believe that children should only be seen and not heard.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Questions that make me go, "mh"

Christmas in a hospital bed

Pudd’ng’s favourite cousin, Nate* broke his elbow the last Friday before Christmas. His parents thought it was a small matter.

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Christmas in a hospital bed

Sexual assault is not a joke

There are people who are serving time because of false allegations of rape

By Josaya Wasonga 4 years ago

Sexual assault is not a joke

Raise rebels with causes

Times however have changed. There is freedom of expression. Which is good for my daughter

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Raise rebels with causes

Are dreams coded messages from the spiritual world?

The freaked out girl told us she had a nightmare and she was afraid of going back to bed.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Are dreams coded messages from the spiritual world?

HIV didn't prevent me from finding love

Eva and David were both born with HIV and knew their status under entirely different circumstances; but destiny made their paths to cross

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

HIV didn't prevent me from finding love

12 commandments of parenting teens

Here's what I have realised. It is easy to lose one's child at this stage and age.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

12 commandments of parenting teens

To the boy sending my little girl texts

I’m tempted to issue a stern warning to baby girl and the little gentleman. But I’ll try diplomacy. Still, I’ll put my fist in a velvet glove.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

To the boy sending my little girl texts

Giving our daughter 'The talk'

Speaking gets to them more than spanking

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Giving our daughter 'The talk'

When she tries to play me against her mama!

Children are smart. They know their parents. They know who’s the bad cop and who’s the good cop.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

When she tries to play me against her mama!

When a child puts their foot in their mouth

What it means when a child puts their foot in their mouth.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

When a child puts their foot in their mouth

Pudd’ng is choosing high schools already

My daughter is in Class Seven, but she is already pumped up about joining a high school.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Pudd’ng is choosing high schools already

Grateful I am still alive

Two Tuesdays ago, I turned another leaf. I’m not a fan of celebrating birthdays. They come and go, and I hardly notice.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Grateful I am still alive

Six commandments of living with a relative's child

Our parents did not just make our cousins to feel right at home; they were made to feel as part of the family.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Six commandments of living with a relative's child

What being a father figure means

Cyril has been passed around different hands and homes. He has lived with my elder sister, big brother and small brother.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

What being a father figure means

Dads and puberty talk: How about a ‘men buying pads’ month?

I propose that we have an MBP Month. That is, Men Buying Pads Month.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Dads and puberty talk: How about a ‘men buying pads’ month?

Father’s day gifts every woman can afford to give

Ladies usually have a hard time choosing Father’s Day gifts for their better halves.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Father’s day gifts every woman can afford to give

A letter to my daughter’s future boyfriend

I know my daughter isn’t perfect. But I love her that way

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

A letter to my daughter’s future boyfriend

Learn to tie knots before parading with a towel around your waist

When to tie the knot and wrap that towel on the waist.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Learn to tie knots before parading with a towel around your waist

Wives, words your husband would love to hear

I don’t know about other brothers, but I feel like there are times that I want to hear some words from my wife to keep me going. Don’t get me wrong. I

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Wives, words your husband would love to hear

It’s time for the boy talk with Pudd’ng

I am still planning that dad-daughter date. Though Tenderoni has already got the head start.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

It’s time for the boy talk with Pudd’ng

The pain of a still birth

Three weeks ago, Tenderoni’s best friend Ceelo* lost her unborn baby boy at a city hospital, where she had gone to give birth, after carrying the preg

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

The pain of a still birth

When bladders come loose at unfortunate moments

When they were writing last term’s examinations, Pudd’ng told me about one of her classmates who had an accident

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

When bladders come loose at unfortunate moments

Childhood nicknames we try to outgrow

Growing up, there were things that my dear mother, Nya’Manoah did and said that I hated. Most of these were done and said in public, and they brought

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Childhood nicknames we try to outgrow

What to do when wife says that she doesn’t have clothes to wear

“I swear I don’t have clothes to wear,” I have heard my wife saying this more times than I can remember.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

What to do when wife says that she doesn’t have clothes to wear

Pudd’ng’s new love for soccer

Frankly, I prefer baby girl not being in the living room when I’m watching football, because she shoots questions every two minutes!

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Pudd’ng’s new love for soccer

Daddy has his spy hat on!

Parents play myriad roles in their children’s lives: provider, protector, pal, priest and private investigator.

By Josaya Wasonga 5 years ago

Daddy has his spy hat on!

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