My Struggle of Building My Business and a Relationship With My Daughter.
Are you a parent like myself who has a teen son or daughter who may be going through some tough times?
Do you get along with your teen / young adult?
Is there a power struggle going on in your house?
If you said yes to any of these questions, you are dealing with some of the things I have had to deal with while growing my business.
My daughter is now 21 years old. I been running my business from home for 10+ years now. During this time my daughter has been through some tough times in school and in life. And like many families, the pressure usually comes down on the mother. And as a mother you hurt when you know and feel your child hurting. She was going through challenges in school, with her friends, and just working on understanding who she is.
This story is from the January/February 2017 edition of Daisy magazine.
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EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA
High School teachers in Ghana have been on strike for the past week for non-payment of some teachers’ salaries. It also happens to be the examination week before the Christmas break. A High School teacher I spoke with confirmed he had not been paid for three months. Other teachers mentioned higher figures.As at Friday the 13th of December 2019, serious negotiations behind closed doors had been ongoing between the Teachers’ Union and the Ghana Education to resolve the impasse.That, in a nutshell, sums the state of education in Ghana.
BLACK WALL STREET
Prior to the massacre of May 31, 1921, when a mob of white men over two days burnt the black district of Greenwood to the ground, it was one of the most Affluent African American districts in the entire United States.Founded on Indian Territory in 1906 by Mr. O.C. Gurley and his family, a wealthy land owner, who purchased 40 acres of land in Tulsa, named it Greenwood after a Mississippi town. Gurley was able to purchase this land through the Dawes Act. A US Law that gave land to individual Native Americans and many Black Sharecroppers looking for better opportunities in a post-Civil War era and from racial oppression.Oklahoma was considered a safe haven and became home to more than 50 black townships in the State.
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