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HURT PEOPLE HURT

 The other day i went to visit my cousin at her matrimonial home and something caught my attention. There was this woman from the neighbouring house who kept on shouting to her two children calling them all manners of words. It resulted to a deep concentration on what could be wrong with the children and  this led to scrutinising of the mind back to my upbringing period. There used to be a lot of authoritative parenting,high expectations ,whooping was non stop and one way communication. Though it never occurred to me personally, trust me 90 % of today's parents are witnesses of what happened during their growing period. This state was a norm that parents passed across their children who later did  the same to their siblings and the cycle continued and still does to those who have refused to change their style of bringing up their kids simply because it is a tradition and culture from their whereabouts. Parents  were so strict on their children basing the following ma...

LEFT HANDEDNESS IS NOT A DISABILITY

 Did you know that handedness starts in the  womb? Fetuses starts to move their arms around 9-10 weeks .By early in the second trimester, the babies show a clear preference for sucking one thumb over the other .So handedness is probably hardwired before birth. Still most development experts say parents likely won't get a good sense of their child's dominant hand until age 2 or 3 . Many kids continue to switch hands for different tasks during early childhood. So let us pay attention on left handers today:  Research suggests that the left handed people make roughly 12% of population in the the continent .There is a special day for the left handed people globally on 13th August  every year and this is a day when people are made aware of the challenges that left handers goes through when trying to stand in a world that do not mostly accommodate them. Well,there is something that caught my attention when doing some facts about left handed people,when such a person  i...