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Ideas on how to raise confident children

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My adventurous, confident and brave child Danielle holding a python Context for my last point: Last night I was telling a story to my small group from church about my earlier years as a mother of 2. Danielle our first child was almost 4 years old and she was ready for school. We registered her in a nursery school and we were so excited for her to begin school. The morning of the first day of school, we got her little cute bag and snack ready. You know how it is with first born children. Everything is new and exciting.  We had heard several parents talk about their first child’s day at school and all the emotions involved and we were ready. I was so excited about every step in her growth and for George and to start experiencing the real adventures as parents. It seemed like a lifetime before she begun school! At almost 4 years old, there was so much drama for us as young parents learning, adjusting, copying other parents plus all the drama with the birth of
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God's children don't have to ever beg or worry about what they should eat/drink/wear

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May I never forget this anchor! We all want to get higher in life. We all want to be recognized for what we do. We look up to people who have seemingly made it in life/have what we want. We  read books   to help us see what those in the limelight have achieved and how they achieved it. Some of us want to take the shortest cut possible and get quick rewards. We want that house, that car, that dream job and the dream family . So we try copying and pasting what other people have done to get higher and we still fail. We get frustrated and confused . We sometimes become angry at life and at God because we think we have done all we need to do and nothing is working. Some people seem to get it for a while and it all comes tumbling down and we ask ourselves, if so and so has failed as good and strong as they are, what about me who is not as strong? Then we lose hope and focus and consequently lose our faith and our hope in God and then it all becomes meaningless
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Psalm 121! He is always watching you. Our God never sleeps. How amazing! Have Courage:-)

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Nobody is in-charge of your life but God, the creator and author of it. God promotes us, blesses us and ultimately makes our lives worth living. He provides and makes us everything we should be. I love this Psalm: 121 I look up to the mountains, Does my help come from there? No, my help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth! He will not let you stumble; the one who watches over you will not slumber. Indeed, he who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps. The Lord himself watches over you! The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade. The sun will not harm you by day or the moon at night. The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever. Through my walk with God, I have seen Him do great things. I have seen Him do miracles. I have seen Him take trust me with responsibilities that I would not even try to do on my own. I have seen him build my confide
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He said to me:   “Mummy, you know they are safest with us, you cannot let them go anywhere else”.                                           James, Gabriel, Emmanuel and Joey (Left to right) Many people have asked me how my older biological children feel about having 5 adopted siblings.   The first time I was asked that, I wondered what exactly my response was supposed to be. I was actually caught off guard. I knew that my children didn’t really care because they were happy children but somehow that answer was not a trusted one with my friend. This friend/social worker , who asked me this, said her reason for the question was because they share everything and apparently in the end have less than they would have had because they have to share everything. When we were trying to make sense of my mums death and the situation with James, Emmanuel and Khloe- the 3 children who had been abandoned at birth by their mothers but had been under my mums care until her sudden d
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Mummy, you are just a housekeeper, don't talk to me like that! Said my oldest daughter!

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Mummy, you are just a house keeper- don’t talk to me like that” said my oldest daughter Danielle. She has always pushed my buttons but that's okay, God knew i could manage as her mother. She is a lot like me....i love that about her. When I was a little girl, I saw my mum do everything. She was a single mother and did not have the luxury of staying home with us. She went to work every day. She sometimes went weeks and months away from home working upcountry or abroad. When she came home, we had all her attention. She stretched her love between 5 children and made sure we had the best she could offer us single highhandedly.   I don’t think she thought about what we were learning from her lifestyle ….her sole aim was to educate us and provide. Because of what I saw growing up, I know I can do it all. I mean, I can go to work, raise the kids, stretch my heart to bless other people and make the world a better place. I don’t commonly think there is anything a man c
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Remembering my mother, one year after her death!

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Hey Ma, Two weeks ago I had a dream of you- not the first one but one of the most significant ones since you have been gone. In the dream, you were glowing and very happy.   You were walking alongside my little sister Joy who was oblivious of your presence. She looked sad but was trying to be strong and there you were walking right beside her as she carried a candle in her hand. You and i saw each other and you smiled at me and I kept shouting mummy, mummy, mummy and you came briefly to my corner in the church where I was helping a little boy arrange his presentation and you hugged me but I didn’t feel your physical hug but the warmth in my heart….i cannot describe the feeling I got but it was one of reassurance and contentment. Then you said to me: I have sorted the matters and I have to go now! This whole time, I knew you had died but I was okay with the strangeness of the dream just so I can hear your voice and see your face. In the dream, a strange man
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How about leaving better children for our world!!

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My friend Daniel Ruhweza posted the above picture on his Instagram page and i could not agree with him more. Why are parents scared to discipline their children or voice their opinion towards a strange child who is misbehaving? Have we lost our moral code and don't feel right enough to discipline our children, are we too tired from adding value to the rest of the world and failing add value to our own households, are tired of being parents? What the heck is going on? Sometime back, i sat next this beautiful sweet mum while we were both attending our children's concert. Sat right above us on the upper level in the main hall was a bunch of notorious kids. They kept throwing papers and some random stuff at parents on the lower level. We were dressed nice and we not looking to be re- decorated with some random pieces of things thrown at us by these rowdy kids. I was furious at how these kids were down right disrespecting parents. This sweet mummy looks at me with all
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