The fact that I can see the lollipops in front of the pharmacy desk (and that kids can see them, too) strikes me as quite odd.
I am aware of the pharmacy's policies and the justifications for supplying or selling (I'm not sure yet) lollipops to families with young children, but wouldn't it be preferable to provide healthier alternatives? Since lollipop sugar content is high and children's microbiomes are still developing, lollipop consumption will eventually cause all of the youngsters to have health issues.
Have you ever wondered why there has been a lack of nutritional education in schools? Food plays a vital role in our lives, and understanding its impact on our bodies should begin from an early age. It's puzzling to think that despite the importance of food and water for our well-being, many individuals lack the knowledge to make informed dietary choices. By recognising our bodies as intricate machines, we can appreciate the significance of fuelling them with the right nutrients.
When individuals lack nutritional education, they may unintentionally develop unhealthy relationships with food. Without understanding the nutritional value and effects of certain foods, individuals may turn to unhealthy options or rely on processed and convenience foods that can be detrimental to their health. By teaching individuals about the benefits of nutrient-dense foods, they can develop a positive and nourishing relationship with what they consume.
So even if we do not recognise it yet we need to take responsibility and educate ourselves on healthy eating so that we can pass on our families and the next generation, thanks to the abundance of knowledge available online nowadays.
Would be so important if pharmacies could be mindful of the nutritional impact and overall well-being of their customers, especially children. By diversifying their offerings to include healthier alternatives instead of lollipops, pharmacies can support families in making better choices while still providing a positive experience.
Making informed decisions can help you to take care of your health and the health of your family.
Happy Monday everyone!

Nearly 80 female students in grades 1-6 were poisoned in Afghanistan’s Sangcharak district of Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday. 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 were poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School.

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In my previous essay, The Way to Financial Freedom Part 3, I indicated that understanding what is going on in the financial and technological worlds can help you better grasp our current predicament and how to escape it. The first article to discuss finance is the one you're reading right now.
The Importance of Understanding Cash Flow
Cash flow is the key phrase in the financial world. Blockchain is currently the most significant development in technology. If you have the prior preparation I described as a hypothetical situation in my first post on this series along with the willingness to take the risk, then understanding these two and how they work together to offer an alternative to our existing system can show you the path out of financial jail.
Let us start with cash flow.
The person who enlightened me about the importance of cash flow is the least that you will expect for he is not a theological educator. Instead, he is a Japanese American businessman who co-authored a book with the then-president of the United States, Donald Trump sometime in 2009. His name is Robert Kiyosaki. What I admire about this man is that though he is known as a financial educator, he acknowledges his limitation when it comes to technology.
For Robert Kiyosaki, cash flow is the most important word in business. For us to understand cash flow, we need to make three necessary distinctions.
First, the cash flow of an individual is different from the cash flow of a corporation.
For any aspirant investor in a specific company or a trader in a specific stock, studying the cash flow statement of the company is very important. This is part of due diligence in the world of investment and stock trading for by doing this, you will determine the financial soundness of a company.
Any aspiring investor or trader must study three important financial statements of the company he is planning to invest in or trade with. These are the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. In the Cash Flow Statement, you will see the amount of cash generated by the company in operation, cash earned or spent on financing, and cash used in investing. Such corporate idea of cash flow is defined as:

the total amount of money being transferred into and out of a business, especially as affecting liquidity.

Second, what I mean by cash flow in this article is not the corporate kind, but personal cash flow, which includes understanding both Income Statement and Balance Sheet. (See Figure 1).
Understanding the relationship between these two financial statements is the key to sound management of personal finance to achieve financial freedom. Interpreting cash flow from this perspective refers to the direction of money, the inflow, and outflow, or the pattern of earning and spending. From the point of view of personal finance, this kind of cash flow has three patterns depending on people’s socio-economic class.
Figure 1 – Income Statement and Balance Sheet
Most poor do not see the importance of a Balance Sheet. Their cash flow is defined by their Income Statement, that is, they simply spend what they earn.
Figure 2 – Cash Flow of the Poor
Since the middle class is typically known as a social class, which income is gradually increasing due to success in small business or job promotion, they usually use their income by buying a lot, building a house, and purchasing furniture and other luxuries. Applying such cash flow to the mentioned financial statements would mean that they used their income buying liabilities and so their expenses increased together with their salary.
Figure 3 – Cash Flow of the Middle Class
In the case of financially educated rich, their cash flow is characterized by a focus on buying assets. As they continually use their income to add more assets to their Balance Sheet, their income grows. And when their income is big enough, that’s the time they use their money to spend for their liabilities.
Figure 4 – Cash Flow of the Rich
The above paragraph that explains the three types of cash flow gives us also three definitions of cash flow, which are different from the corporate cash flow statement:


the direction of money from income to expenses,


the direction of money from income to liabilities to expenses, and


the direction of money from income to assets to income to liabilities to expenses.


The third way to understand cash flow is through the board game created by Robert Kiyosaki.
For Robert Kiyosaki, understanding cash flow is very important and that is why he gave his board game this name. Making this board game is his way to teach financial education to prepare people for the world of business and investment. Doing this, he made financial education his business. In this board game, cash flow is defined as income minus expenses. So, all in all, we have at least three concepts of cash flow:


corporate cash flow statements


cash flows of three socio-economic classes, and


cash flow as used in a board game


In the introduction of Kiyosaki’s book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, he mentioned a story of the different reactions of people as they played the board game: the accountant, the businessman, the computer programmer, and the banker.
The accountant finds Cash Flow a very interesting game making accounting and investing fun and exciting. While playing the game, she was disturbed with the fact about the ignorance of most adults about the basics of simple accounting and investing. She realized that ignorance of this subject was the primary reason why most people struggle financially.
The businessman on the other hand said that he does not need the game for he could hire professionals such as accountants, bankers, and lawyers to do the work for him.
And then we have the computer programmer. He was also not impressed for he believes that all he needs is software to teach him how to invest.
And then finally, the banker. He was moved while playing the game. He realized that he studied all this stuff in school but he does not know how to apply his knowledge in the actual world of business and investment. With that realization, he saw the need for him to get out of the Rat Race.
The rat race is a financial condition of a person where the cycle consists in working, receiving a salary, and spending. Such a cycle is repeated for years until the person reached the peak of his working years and in old age will rely on his relatives or friends for his hospital bills. This is how Robert Kiyosaki describes the rat race:

If you look at the life of the average educated, hardworking person, there is a similar path. The child is born and goes to school. The proud parents are excited because the child excels, gets fair to good grades, and is accepted into a college. The child graduates maybe goes on to graduate school and then does exactly as programmed: looks for a safe, secure job or career. The child finds that job, maybe as a doctor or a lawyer. . . Generally, the child begins to make money, credit cards start. . . and the shopping begins . . .
Having money to burn, the child goes to places where other young people just like they hang out, and they meet people, they date, and sometimes they get married. Life is wonderful now, because today, both men and women work. Two incomes are bliss. They feel successful, their future is bright, and they decide to buy a house, and a car…and have children…The happy couple decides that their careers are vitally important and begin to work harder, seeking promotions and raises. The raises come, and so does another child and the need for a bigger house. They work harder, become better employees, and even more dedicated. They go back to school to get more specialized skills so they can earn more money . . . Their incomes go up . . .They get their large paycheck and wonder where all the money went . . . The children reach 5 or 6 years of age, and the need to save for college increases as well as the need for their retirement.
That happy couple, born 35 years ago, is now trapped in the Rat Race for the rest of their working days. They work for the owners of their companies, for the government paying taxes, and for the bank paying off a mortgage and credit cards.
Then they advise their children to ‘study hard, get good grades, and find a safe job or career.’ They learn nothing about money . . . and work hard all their lives. The process repeats into another hard-working generation. This is the ‘Rat Race.’ (Source: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad).

From the above description of the rate race, I see it as a kind of prison though different in degree compared to the kind of economic and financial jail based on the existing monetary system. Understanding both cash flow and the rat race, I hope that you will explore the path to achieve such a vision of financial freedom.
In the next article, I will be giving an overview of my current understanding of blockchain technology.
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The world could be a cruel place to be in and it could also be a beautiful place as well as a stressful place. What the world is to you is dependent on the hard and smart work you put into your path of financial vindication.

This post is based on a true life story, and I want to use this medium to motivate everyone out there who think that life is worst to them.

Life is really cruel and heartless to me, but in all, we move forward never to go back wards. I believe that giving up isn't an option because all other works will be a waste if I give up now.

**THE STORY**

Nwothini was born to a great family of 4 with him being the second son, while having an eldest sister and two other brothers.

Growing up, things began to go north and I had to fend for myself from a very young age. I was around 6-8 years old when I first made my 2 thousand Naira with hard work. Back then, 2 thousand Naira is like 6 thousand Naira now, and I was paid this money on a weekly basis.

I worked with a wholesale shop. I was the short distance transporter then and my boss transported long distance. At times I do follow him for long distance transportation while his wife was the accountant. Back then, I do use a wheel barrow for short distance transportation and it was really stressful.

I worked for sometime after which I quit because of the stress and my body was too young to keep up with that stress.

After some time, when I was around 9 - 10 years of age, I got another job where I was paid the same amount.

I worked with a man who bakes meat roll, egg role, fish roll, burger and many things. (He taught me this skill which I've forgotten now though) and still paid me cause the work load was much. After I finished baking with him, the suppliers will carry it on their show glass and hawk it around.

I got feeding from there a x I didn't have to spend much money because after everything, I will save some, and bring some home to add to the feeding money for my family.

Dad left when I was born, so it was just mom and she refused to remarry.

I thought I had found vindication from my current work, because I was able to support my family financially but life had a very interesting path for me.

I wouldn't say we were poor, but middle class because everyone strived hard to make sure that we survived.

After some years of working there and schooling at the same time, mom said we had to relocate to the east (imo state Nigeria) which we did, but I was really pained because I was making a living and I was really happy with my current work.

We relocated to the east thinking that the path will be better, not knowing that things was about to get really bad. After much struggles, I couldn't bare it no more, so I had to look for something to do.

That was when I started going for laborer job. I mixed cement for a brick layer at the age of 16 and I did it for some time and still doing it till date.. yes even as a Nursing student.

After all the ups ad downs, I managed to graduate from secondary school with a good grade which still surprises me up till date, and that was when I decided to do nursing.

My nursing career is as a result of what life has thrown to me and I really don't want nobody to face such. I'm just summarizing things here to be honest.

I started my nursing career few years ago and it has been filled with ups and downs. We had a hangout in hive learners community last Monday and I told them I nearly committed suicide at one stage of life, but seeing why I started, looking at the people that are with me, and looking at tons of people out there I will help via charity, I decided to keep living.

Currently, I am a man of many talents.


At my current age, I do go for carpentry works,

I carry blocks for a block company,

I manage my provision store which I opened with the money gotten from the little jobs I do,

I still know how to fix wires (electrician)


I know how to sew (tailoring)

And I am still a blogger and crypto spot trader.
If someone told you that I do these things, will you believe? NO. I do anything for money except illegal things.

I do anything that could get money and all these money I forward to my schooling.. yes.. when I started hive newly, I removed the money I got due to school problems, and even in Steemit (I was an author there too... My username is @ delightharris), I had to power down and channel the money into my school.

Currently I am owing a 125,000 Naira but I'm just hoping and working hard towards it. I believe in my hard and smart works and I believe in my creator to give me strength... What don't kill me will always make me stronger in life, and this, I will accomplish and get my license to practice, then impact the world positively.

**THE MOTIVATION**

One things I've come to learn in life is that, if you're like a Christian that prays for God to do everything for you, my dear you'll perish. I believe that God has given us "dominion." In genesis he said "and let them have dominion." This implies that I have the power to do things, I have the authority to command things to work for me, but all these I could achieve through hard and smart work, including determination, self control, positive spirituality, loyalty, humility, as well as good vibes.

I am a student nurse currently who is in his Final years, and my dream of charity is about to be accomplished by Grace.

So what is holding you? If I could realize myself at age 6 and get out of my comfort zone to work, what about you? Yes two people ain't the same, but you're better than a 6 year old.

Irrespective of what life is throwing at us, we should be strong enough to fight head on with it. What doesn't kill you will make you stronger and, and if I die trying, it's better for me than to lead a miserable and poor life.

If you feel like crying in the process, shout out loud and cry your heart out.. if you feel angry and annoyed, look at your reflexion in a mirror and ask yourself, what is wrong and how I'm I going to solve this problem.. if you feel like giving up, remind yourself why you started and the people who are hoping that you make it in life, and when you reach your dreams, **put in kindness to the world,** help the needy, and tell them to help other persons and by so doing, the world will be a better place.

The change you seek begins from you.

Thank you for reading, I really appreciate you stopping by, and all the support I have been getting.

I love you all.


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Marriage to me is an academy that one have a day of admission but no specific day of graduation till death do one part. There are lots of school of thought when it comes to what an ideal marriage should look like, but in all my stand in marriage is to be selfless and marrying someone who you disagree to agree without any third party coming in between.

In recent times there has been lots of divorce cases that makes one to wonder if really the people involved gave a deep thought into what marriage is before going into it at the first place. Well, most people yeild to the pressure from the society or even the immediate family saying *that all your mates are married and what are you waiting for"? Marriage is not by compulsion or out of fleshly desires. A man or a woman that is given to fornication will not stop when he is married either rather he will want to taste the different nature's because that has been his or her way of life.

Marriage is not always what one thinks in all, I can vividly remember that I attend various seminars and the preachers always try to give a picture of what an ideal marriage should look like. Most times people relate matters based on their own experience or what they heard from others and few put up ideas based on how it should be. Marriage is a package, so when you enter as you open it up what you see in yours is what you should take, so coming in with a rigid standard can ruin ones home.

For instance, if I have a standard and I feel my husband is not measuring up, the thing I need to do is not to force my way into him but gradually telling him the importance of doing things differently. Both of us will make mistakes then accepting our mistakes will enable us learn the best way to do same next time but sitting down with my correction fluid and refusing to be corrected will bring no little issue

Marriage is the coming together of two different adults who has been in there own environment and their way of training different, but when we come together we work on havingvthe same view.

*There was one promise I got from my father in law before I got married*. Initially I wanted to stay in my parents house and at least work to have some kind of financial freedom before getting married, *because without money marriage may become a mirage* but that was not possible for me and I decided to give in when my father in-law told me that there are jobs everywhere in their place. Well, I quickly accepted and the whole process was done. Fast forward to some weeks after, I asked him of the jobs he spoke of, he was bringing suggestions of working in their village for less than 8k in naira. *What!!!!* I was so sad the day I heard that. When we returned I told my husband that I was going to start up a business at least to help the family with those earnings.

That's one out of many, but this experience has taught me to believe in myself and no one can pay me more than I çan pay myself. Three years later I got a job that I was promised to be paid 20k naira . Four days after accepting the job and seeing how demanding it was going to be I left the job. Two weeks down the lane I got another that promised to pay 40k in naira, I also declined because some things may look juicing but a time killer.

Now before I accept any offer I have to put many things into consideration which includes the condition of my family, any job that will take my attention up 70 percent from my family is not for me. Also any job that will take 9 hours from my time in a day is not for me.

Now I have come to believe more in myself and what I have to offer. In this time one have to have good confidence in himself because that will help one run from distractions. In marriage I have become more matured in mind and have learnt how to handle my issues without involving anyone.

*This is my entry to the hive learner's contest week 165 edition 1. Thank you for visiting my blog, we will interact more in the comment section*

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As at the time I drew this, I was stuck in school waiting for my Prof to fix a class for an elective. So I thought of making a few sketchers in the mean time. I was able to make about two quick drawings and this was the first. Funny how I am likely to face the same fate tomorrow....lol
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**Thanks for the visit friends, have a lovely weekend.**

A growing number of Americans don’t want cell towers and antennas near their homes or their children’s schools due to #health and safety risks.

Vera Sharav at the Better Way Conference: “We don’t need a centralised WHO. We don’t need a centralised world bank or federal reserve system. We do not need a one world government. Let 100 flowers bloom and 100 schools of thought flourish.”

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Isku-duwaha Wasaaradda Beeraha Ee Togdheer Iyo Masuuliyiin Kale Oo Kormeeray Deegaano Laga Fuliyey Mashaariic Muhiim Ah.
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Burco (WHB) - Isku-duwaha Wasaaradda Beeraha ee Gobolka Togdheer Cabdirisaaq Cabdillaahi Ibraahim, ayaa soo kormeeray Mashruuca RBA oo Hay'adda FAO ka wadday 9 tuulo oo hoos yimaadda gobolka Togdheer, kuwaasi oo la soo gebogabeeyay.

Kormeerkan waxa Isku-duwaha Wasaaradda Beeraha ku wehelinayey Isku-duweyaasha Wasaaradaha Xanaanada Xoolaha ee Gobolka Togdheer Sayid-Cali iyo Isku-duwaha Wasaaradda deegaanka Siciid Haybe, waxayna soo kormeereen deegaannada Mashruucan laga fuliyey ee ka faa'idaystay.

Mashruucan waxyaabaha uu qabtay waxaa ugu waawayn Dhaamam laga dhisay, horumarinta beeraha, sida tababaro la xidhiidha Beeraha (Home garden), beer suuqeed (Market garden) iyo dugsi beereed (Farmers field school), calafka xoolaha, qalabka beeraha, iyo Mishiino loogu talo galay calafka xoolaha, dhaamam ku qalabaysan Dabka Cadceedda laga dhaliyo, kuwa biyaha soo tuura iyo Caagga la dhigo dhaamamka.

Isku-duwaha Wasaaradda Beeraha ee Gobolka Togdheer Cabdirisaaq Cabdillaahi oo bilowgii Mashruucan seeska u dhigay, lana socday intii uu socday, ayaa sheegay inay ku baxday Lacag Malaayiin dollar ah, looguna Talo-galay in dadka deegaannada laga fuliyey ka faa'idaystaan.

Tuulooyinka Mashruucan Hay'adda FAO ka fulisay ee Isku-duwayaashu kormeerka ku soo sameeyeen waxay kala yihiin Nasiye, Bisiqa, Harada, Warcimraan, Kalbare, Boodhley, Booraamo iyo Dindiinta.

Kormeerkan ayaa isuduwayaasha wasaaradaha, beeraha, xoolaha iyo deegaanku ku qiimeeyeen Waxtarkii iyo sida loo sii horumarin lahaa mashaariicaha dhamaaday ee Hay'adda FAOka wadday gobolka Togdheer iyo sidii qaar cusub looga bilaabi lahaa gobolka.

The ubiquity and widespread acceptance of #homeschooling as a valid educational option for American families can obscure the fact that homeschooling freedoms were hard-fought.


Good day parents here and all over the world. Am happy to be with you to share my thoughts with you. Nurturing a life is not an easy task at all, most times we have a picture of what we wish that we would have become and how maybe our parents did not get it with us so we want the story to be different with us. As we interact with friends and family on a daily basis we have a mental picture of what we want from our children.

To bring those mental pictures to play it's either our choice how all will be possible. On my part I have this big picture that I wish it plays out in regards to my children.

Now the big question *what kind of parent would you like to be?*

I will want to be a parent that is always there for her kids. My children are still tender and most times they can't help themselves so it becomes so frustrating to them when they need something and they don't get it.

Let me be that parent that hears the heart of my kids. Most times children can't express themselves, so they need you to just understand everything. When they are hungry, they most times can't open up to say they need to eat, so giving them that listening ear and observing them always helps me to know they need to eat.

To be a parent that gives them that space to grow is my wish, a times grown adults don't give space for the childrens excesses forgetting that one time they behaved in such nasty manners too.

A parent that does not appear the rod is who I wish to be. Oh yes!!! There is time for everything, so giving that discipline will not make them for rather they become the better version of themselves. I have a special cain that I use in exclusive moments so when it comes out they know they have committed.

*What kind of parent you truly are?*
We all are work in progress, a times I get so busy that it becomes difficult for me to keep to what I desire but am trying my best to maintain what I have in mind. Am that parent that gives my children the best I can afford, am their nanny so we do things together. I do my best to do the first coaching academically and otherwise.

Working to improve myself is my uttermost priority. I do my best to be patient with them. Just yesterday my son came home from school with a scale on his face the way I approached the matter I noticed he was not happy so I kept mute so as not to offend him. Later in the even i quitely asked again and he told me the person that did that to him. Patience is highly needed when it comes to caring for the children. Also I do some study on child development in relation to temperament and the likes.

It's my believe that I have spoken so much and little about this topic. Thank you for visiting my blog friends see you next time.

Hello everyone,
I'm sorry for my absence lately, I have a lot going on at school and work lately. Last week I came across a bull with flaming eyes on pinterest and I love the play of the eye so I decided to do something similar to that but might is a drawing of a zombie. It's been a while I've done any ink drawing see the finished work gives me so much joy. If you check the sketch you would see the difference that most of the features in the drawing was not intended when I dived into the drawing after I made the rough sketch I got some new perspective on what to add to my drawing and it came out okay. Like I usually say I love to try out new things and it been a greet journey so far, and I appreciate everyone who has supported me one way or the other through your upvote,comments, resteeming my work, recommending me for a contests, I want to say a really big Thank you to you all.


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Hi great people,
A wonderful Wednesday morning from this end and hope you had a splendid night too.
In response to the prompt for the second edition I titled it thus; Helping a 1960s individual with smartphone
Smartphone has been a challenge to so many people especially those in the 1960s. It will take certain Deliberate attributes to deal with the challenge of describing what smartphone entails, how would you it and the way to enjoy the best out of it.
The smartphone is in a different generation compared to 60s generation. The role of smartphones in the present generation can't be overemphasized because it's benefits are too numerous that one can't share all like in the present ICT generation where school assignment, snapshots, communication, registration, internet surfing etc are carried out via this device.
Follow me gradually as I share the experience of someone aged with the issue of smartphones.
I had the privilege to have a friend and just like a father that has been so dear to me but doesn't know how to operate his smartphone very though advanced in age.
In fact there are myths that many people have about smartphone within the African society. Some believe that is a sign of end time which the devil want to use to manipulate the destiny of men. However on his own part, he believes that people of his category don't suppose to use such sophisticated device since it doesn't synchronised with their generation.
With such bias thought emanating from him, I needed to first and foremost brainwashed him very and open the reality of the use of smartphones to him. I had to disagree with any myth that exists about smartphone as not an agent of destruction rather is a good platform to enable other tasks to be done faster and better. I told him knowledge is key to everything and what you don't know, abuse might be inevitable.
Furthermore, I said the devil can use anything if he wants to destroy lives not just smartphone would he use but so many other things therefore disabuse your mind from such believe system.
I had to highlight some key vital significance of smartphones thus;

Smartphone helps to bridge the gap between the old and new. You can dig into history via smartphone by using the barcode scanner, internet facility etc.
Smartphone has the capacity to store long term information through the Google emails.
Before desktop computer has been the order of the day and some laptops however today with the introduction of smartphones, that which can be done in computer smartphone does it even better. Most of the registration for school or of any kind that I've ever done was via my smartphone. This makes work to be done easily and saves more time/energy. Aside that it's also more portable and pocketable.
From the name smartphone that suggests that this device is very smart and enables more tasks to be done smartly.

It doesn't take much to learn how to use the smartphone because it's self interactive with videos available. At the end, my friend operates the smartphone like someone that has been using it before.
thanks for all the comments and reading through.

Happy mid-week my friends and family. Hope you are doing well today? Am here to be part of this mid-week contest edition.

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Trying to work on people's believe system is not so easy as the persons had already assume how things should be. Well, a man that stops learning is on his way to say good bye to the mother Earth, life is a process and we progress by doing new things or discovering new ways of doing things. This brings me to the topic of the day, *how I will convince someone of 1960's about the importance of smartphone.

Those in the primitive age does not believe one should spend so much fortune in trevial things their minds always heads towards investment on properties and sometimes good food. I have two stories of how I was able to convince my mother and my mother inlaw on the importance of using smart gadget's.

You can remember in my last publication on Monday I spoke of how I lost my laptop which I got for the purpose of my project in school. Now I was left with no other option than to use my smart phone to source for material's for my project. My mother will not want to hear anything relating to buying new laptop. After my school work, it was now my younger siblings turn to face what I faced then I opened opened up to her that this phone we hold is not just meant for calls. I made her understand that it helps to save time and energy, the time and money one use in going to the library can be used to get data and access information and more online. Well, my Mom was not so difficult to convince because at least she believe in laptop and our last born got an award of a laptop when he was still in the secondary school, also looking practically from my own experience she gave in.

Coming to my mother inlaw, it was not really easy first it's a different environment and most people here believe in physical work and enjoy using cheap articles. Recently my husband's phone had calibrator issue so we had to make use of one phone. When she enquired of how much it will cost for the phone to be fixed I told her 10k naira , she shouted. Then I took the time to make her understand that this phone she is looking at is an office. Most people now don't need to go to the physical office to make ends meet. Reluctantly she accepted what I said because I brought many instances to convince her.

*Do you know why many from the 1960's don't believe in smart phone?* It has been recorded that many fraudulent activities are being carried out with phone. There are even those of much younger age who do not believe that something positive can be done with this phone that profits you and I. Few weeks back I was conversing with a young lady she said that most things they do online is Yahoo Yahoo. I was like, that's because you have not met the correct and current platforms.

My advice now is, for we that have the write knowledge we can do well to keep informing people of the importance of this smartphone, let's be the example and keep telling people the good ways that exits with smartphone. Also let's look away from the negative ways

This is my entry for the hive learner's contest week 64 edition 2. Thank you for visiting my blog dear ones, see you in the next edition.

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