Parents who think their children are the greatest!
By Bunmi Sofola RECENTLY, Frieda, the head of a leading private school, lamented that modern parents are praising their children to the hilt and bringing up their daughters as if they can do no wrong. She argued that being showered with too much praise and too many presents is not a good thing for a child […]
Dear Bunmi, what does it take to be a good husband?
Dear Bunmi, the reason why I’m apprehensive is that a lot of our friends who got married have already split up and I’m scared stiff
Dear Bunmi, he started shopping for a baby-mama
He was shopping around for a woman who could give him more children.As luck would have it, I got pregnant last year
The shock of reading about the ‘other woman’ claiming to be the wife!
By Bunmi Sofola As Nikky made her way to her office that fateful Monday morning, she saw a group of some female members of staff clustering round the photo copiers and chattering excitedly. When they saw her, the silence was eerie, and instead of scurrying off to their seats, they looked at her with defiance. “I […]
Learning to love that man you married once again
By Bunmi Sofola FROM time to time, you run into couples who look so wrong together you wonder what the attraction is. And, there are couples you see and are convinced their union is ordained from heaven. But these assumptions could be far-fetched at times. Take Lisa’s case for instance. She’s been married for four years […]
He burnt his fingers replacing his menopausal wife with a bombshell!
By Bunmi Sofola When Ibidun hit the menopause, her erratic behaviour became irritating and unbearable to Peter, her husband. She was 48 and a mother of four grown-up children. A normally bubbly woman, she became testy, snarling and crying most of the time. “Whenever I tried to find out what the matter was, she shoved me […]
You can have great sex at 40
Both of them were naked. Sesan was in shock. He leapt from the bed and ran out of the house, running like a man possessed in my towelling robe
It pays to enjoy being a merry widow!
By Bunmi Sofola “Less than a year after my brother-in-law’s death, I rang my sister, Beverly and was surprised to hear her giggling down the line”, said Tope, herself widowed at age 48. “When I asked what was going on, she told me she had a ‘gentleman visitor’. This was around 11a.m., so I told her […]
Why you need to make your marriage more important than your children
By Bunmi Sofola WHEN we were children, there were much stricter boundaries,” recalled Eriwu, a 42-year old mother of two teenage children as we discussed the vast difference of parenting in the past and how today’s parents mono-cuddle their children. She continued: “Children did not stay up with the adults, or socialise with them, or sleep […]
What’s a man’s pride got to do with it when he smells the money?!
By Bunmi Sofola SYLVIA admitted that her parent’s marriage and the stoic way her mummy yielded her position as the first wife to a much younger and ambitious woman prepared her for the way she handled her relationship with men. Her story: ‘When a man suddenly discovered he’s scaled the ladder of success faster than he’d […]
Why a new dad and his partner should equally be the most important in their child’s life
By Bunmi Sofola PREGNANCY for Dads-to-be: Everything you need to know from Conception to Birth is a book currently making waves in the UK. Written by Adam Carpenter, it helps expectant and new dads get into the swing of childcare and gives as much as the new mothers – if not more! According to him, becoming […]
