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Mothers look at their daughters with great expectations of an amazing future. The joy of holding them at their infancy to seeing them mature from their toddling stage through to their adolescent and adulthood. Its awesome seeing them grow up into beautiful ladies and so you want the best for them: the ability to face life's storm, make great decisions and be bold as they pull through life.  Most ladies have grown sullen and depressed....What could have gone wrong with our baby girls? They've grown so introverted that some have had to turn to friends for succor while others have turned to various social networks in a bid to gain acceptance from an unseen audience. As parents how much have we tried to make these girls feel accepted? its important that you take out time to know your girls better, be their best friends and the first to hear all the dirty details.. Mothers have a greater task to perform as the girls go through puberty and the transition from elementary school ...

We all have to struggle with belly fat. How disgusting this is. First we tend to eat late night meals. Secondly we tend to eat the wrong things always. Stress induced weight gain seem more common as we tend to become  peckish when stressed out. The first step to eliminating this fat is to be determined to lose them. First you must remember that several diseases are caused by these body fat. Most times we start some diet plan and never get to finish it because we get bored of these plans. You have to make a conscious decision to lose weight and very fast at that. Here are a few start up points you might want to consider... Get a journal and record your present weight in it. Keeping track of your progress would always serve as a booster. Reduce your carb portions. Eat more proteins and vegetables. Oftentimes getting a timetable helps in re-organizing your meals. Taking a good dose of Vitamin C helps in losing body fat. Without Vitamin C, your body finds it difficult to lose ...

Hello friends, Just preparing for a training and found this really educative video on correct sitting postures. I thought it would be great sharing it with you. Adapting these sitting postures could help in preventing back aches and other ridiculous postures. I hope you enjoy this as much as i did! Living Healthy...

On the 5th of June 2014, we celebrate the biggest day for positive environmental action which is the World Environment Day (WED 2014). The theme for this year event is the effect of climate change on small islands. We all have a lot to do concerning our environment... Support the United Nations in this campaign! Raise your voice not the Sea Level!! Every action counts!!! Log on to http://www.unep.org/wed/ for more details. Living Healthy...

''He was quiet and loving! His friends were less than a handful, He was always home. Everywhere I went, he always wanted to be there. I felt loved...It slowly turned to jealousy. Now he hits me at every insecure feeling. He hits me without asking questions...Then there's the tearful apology and awesome makeup sex that would always leave me feeling so special...I loved every moment! We got married and this continued... I kept no male friends and signing up on any of the social network sites was forbidden. I still felt loved because.... he wasn't cheating on me. On this fateful day, he hit me so hard....I lost my life in the process.... I didn't live long enough to experience the tearful apology and awesome makeup sex I loved!'' To hell with the awesome makeup sex and tearful apologies!! Thousands of women all over the world are stuck in abusive marriages. Some do not live long enough to tell their story. The question still remains.. Who is to blame?  ...

You just ticked the box that says you've read and agreed with the terms and condition without truly looking through it ...  We are all guilty of this anyways! I do not wish to throw stones right now because we all live in glass houses but this is for us to encourage each other and work towards living better lives.  Why the lies?  I personally love listening to lies when I know the truth. I have come to realize that its a whole lot easier to speak the truth. Some lies are so white!!! Oh no! there's this urge to slap the person across the face. This crazy dude called lie has destroyed a lot of marriages, relationships, families, siblings and groups yet we keep letting him in!  When do we learn to make a conscious decision to be truthful at all time?  Most people live false lives, some claim to be happy when they are not....some claim to be rich and comfortable when they ain't even worth a penny....! Learn to accept who you are and stop b...

Fear is a terrible thing! We humans deprive ourselves from a lot of things because we are either afraid to try or too scared to leave our comfort zones! No one is perfect so never be afraid to try. One thing that has formed my decision to get things done is an anticipation of the outcome. Worse Scenario is a negative response!  If you must lead a creative life, you must lose that fear of been wrong. Give answers to your worse fears.. Ask Questions as to what the worse scenario could be... Its not enough to just ask these questions, Give them answers too. A lot of people have dreams THAT HAVE GONE UNATTENDED TO! When your life is saturated by incessant fears, depression creeps in!  I once met a guy who was too scared to fail. He was so scared to fail that he stopped trying! Isn't that Ironic? Sadly this is the story of about 90% of young  adults in the country today.   The competition is so high! Peer Pressure sets in and when ...