Hello, everyone. I welcome you to my blog. As kids, we all longed for independence, just so we could be free from our parents directing and detecting our every move. Little did we know a lot of sacrifices

Source My independence journey happened in stages. The first stage was the independence of budgeting and spending money given to me while the second stage was the independence of making the money myself.

Family is a crucial aspect for growth and development in the community. According Developmental psychology, it is the first agent of socialization where a child learns most of the traits he or she has

Hello members of Hivenaija community, it's a privilege to participate in this week’s prompt again. The prompt for this week really hit home as independence has become my reality right now. So the prompt

Hello, everyone. I welcome you to my blog. Growing up in the northern part of Nigeria, I saw in so many families how specific tasks are only carried out by a specific gender, and on no account should the

Welcome To My Blog Happy weekend buddies. It's my first time writing in the @hive-naija contest. Feels good to participate I vividly remember the first time I felt the weight of independence . I had just

First and foremost, I would say that when I began boarding school in JSS2, I felt truly independent. I had my first classes in JSS2 at my school at the time, in 2013. Until one faithful day (I remember

There are 4 boys and a girl in my family. The only female among us is the 4th child and she was born when we were all grown up. My elder brother and I grew up under the care of my grandmother, She had

Independency - When was the first time you felt truly independent or older than your age? This question got me laughing hard because I was trying to calculate and think back to the first time I felt truly

If there's one compliment I always receive from people is “You behave older than your age”. Alright I take it up as a compliment in the sense that they didn't say “look older” rather is “behave older”,

Family is one of the best gifts you can ever have as a person. Family is where you get true love, joy and happiness. No matter what you are going through, never you neglect your family. They should be

...Can one actually become truly independent without being financially mature... What is independence to me? Independence is the moment when I have the ability to make decisions concerning every aspect

Gender roles is not really a thing in my family. My parent brought us up to be that independent; they made us understand our normal gender roles but trained us ( maybe unconciously ) in a way that we could

The first time in my life I did something independent and beyond my age was when a serious issue arose in our compound, nearly involving the police. That day compelled me to step out and take responsibility,

Gender roles in my family are just like you would imagine. As an only female child, the responsibility of cleaning, cooking and catering for my brothers have been obligation. Is it a position i have grown

The first time I truly felt independent and felt older than my age was a lot of years back, but seems like yesterday. When I was in secondary school, I've always wanted to be alone and explore on my own,

The onset of my independence marked the beginning of a new chapter in my life. I was only 18 years old and that was the first time I ever felt so independent and lonely. I had just gotten admission into

Good day, amazing people of the hive block chain. Welcome back to my blog. This is an edition in the amazing city of #hivenaija source Being independent simply means you will not depend on anybody for

At some point in a person's life, there is always that time that makes one independent and more mature than their age. sometimes when we do the unthinkable, we just sits back and wonder if we truly did

Greetings Have you ever been pressured to look for a means of through which you can get support from people around and then you come to realize that what you actually get is advice and not the support?