Hello,
We face different issues or challenges every day. In fact it is these issues or challenges that we face that make us become more knowledgeable, experienced, more bold and courageous.
It is believed in education that a pupil or student cannot be said to have understood a topic very well if not evaluated. Our means of evaluation as humans are our daily issues or challenges and how we deal with them.
In dealing with my daily issues, I have two ways around it. It's either i figure it out on my own or talk to a sister. I like to figure some minor issues out on my own so I don't become an unnecessary Burden to my sister and this also serves as an opportunity to dare my own self.
And sometimes, I will rather talk to my sister because this helps me to clear my head and give me the advantage of hearing another person's view or opinion on a disturbing issue.
This reminds me of an issue I had some time ago, things were not going smoothly for my husband and I financially, it was so tough that we could hardly feed our children twice a day not to talk of paying their tuition in school.
I felt like my world was crumbling right before my eyes and everything felt too much for me to bear then I decided to talk to this sister of mine about it not for financial assistance but just to let it all out.
To my greatest surprise, she gave reasonable advice in fact after talking to her I felt relieved and less bothered. I started picking each day as it comes and focus on one thing at a time.
One of the advice she gave was that I should keep the children at home and engage them academically till we were able to offset the previous debt at the school to avoid accumulated debt which might make us lose our self respect and integrity in our children's school.
She also suggested that i bring my sewing machine to the balcony of my house so people in the neighborhood can be aware that I am a seamstress and patronise me in order to increase the flow of money into our pocket.
She suggested I talk to my husband to take his business to his social media pages and advertise so as to improve the number of weekly patronage and this really helped.
We kept the children at home for only a half term during this period, husband will engage them with mathematics and science in the morning while I go to work and steps out by 11 o'clock which we assume to be the children break time for the children while I take them on language and social science in the afternoon when I get back from work.
My husband runs deliveries for his online customers on weekends while I sew customers clothes too. Though it was stressful but we were able to achieve our goal. We offset all our debts, paid our children fees and they returned to school at the second half term and we were able to pay our bills without fear.
Though I had intentions of keeping the children at home before talking to my sister but the fear of what people in my area would say was getting to me. She was the one who encouraged me to do things the way it works for me and not mind what people will say.
She reminded me that if i refuse to take the necessary steps people will still talk. Furthermore, she encouraged me to explain things to my children in the simplest form so as not to keep them in the dark and I am happy I actually spoke with her and she helped.
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