A good plan prospective.

Thanks, dear @Albena, I hope all the ideas or learning of our life can be shared here and help each other to learn and have a better life other than making earning via blogging or commenting here.
Cheers!

For me, the best thing is to have another peer come over the house. I did that to our daughter when she was still a kid.

We would ask the neighbor’s kid to come over the house. The kid would be there in the house with our kid the whole day. The helper would let the kid eat with our daughter and they really have fun playing.

In the evening it’s our turn to play with our daughter. 🙂

Yes, you are right, @Dina,the kids need another peer, if not, they might need the parent to stay along almost the whole day.
I have two kids, so they can play with and play around sometimes, but do need the guidance from the parents sometimes.

Some single kid can play and stay alone for hours, it’s good also for them to have “me” time, I think.

There is a lot more you can do. I would like to write an article on this myself. As we did not have a T.V as my kids were growing up I have a lot of experience! One thing I did was create a craft box with all sorts of things to make things with and paint and brushes and glue and junk. If it would work to make something, into the craft box it went. We had many happy afternoons getting that box out and once, my daughter and I used a huge cardboard box and made it into a play oven. That was an afternoon and then other afternoons “cooking” for the dolls.

Those are actually all the things I did when I was younger. I am a 90’s child so cellphones and computers were fairly a recent thing especially the Internet.

But my favorite things to do when I was a child was playing with my neighbor. Would would make up the weirdest games,camping in our back yard or just play finding Waldo.

Those were the times we’re we actually spent quality. time with people.

Now a days I see children with iPhones even and that is something I dont find right. I can’t say how to parent a child but let them be a child while they can. Once technology hits it will be impossible to get them off it.

I disagree. The “five reasons” you mentioned are possible to achieve with or without having a job before marriage. When the virtuous woman is described in the proverbs of King Solomon, there is no indication that the woman had a job before she got married. Although since it was Bible times, it’s very likely she didn’t have a job.

Yes, that is very true.

As a career woman in my single days, I help my parents by buying groceries for the necessities at home. I also buy half sack of rice every month for our whole month consumption at home.

And since I have my own money, I can always go out with friends without asking for money from my parents. I can buy clothes , shoes and bags whenever I like.

So, when I got married, I was able to help my husband in providing for our sustenance and for our child.

I think, girls should really be financially stable also, before getting married.

I agree it is good for any woman to have a career. Nobody knows what kind of hand life will deal them and the possibility of two incomes is helpful for any marriage, but I was a stay at home mum and I can tell you that was in itself a job and deserved as much respect as any outside job I had. These days BOTH man and wife should work, contribute to the marriage and the things that make up a home. That means that respect is mutual and the man also does the housework.

This looks like a good recipe. I may have to give this one a shot. I am just wondering is this good to eat early morning or more of lunch or dinner type food?

It seems delicious and good to it since melon has a lot of health benefits. Jayaraman and Christina (2013) carried out a phytochemical analysis of the melon plant extracts. The study showed the presence of Cucurbitacin A, B, C, D, E (α-elaterin), saponins, alkaloids, anthranol, saponarin, tannins, tryptophan, terpenoids, J, L, caffeic acid, flavone glucosides, phenolic, arginine, flavanoids, cardic glycoloids, steroids, trace elements and sulfur-containing amino acids in this plant.

It is also an excellent source of nutritional minerals and vitamins such as carbohydrate, protein, fat, zinc, vitamin B1 (Thiamine), dietary fibre, sulphur, magnesium, vitamins B2 (Riboflavin), niacin and manganese.

Egusi is mostly grown for its shelled seeds that are usually ground and used for preparing assorted dishes such as egusi soup, egusi stew and salad. Some common Nigerian egusi dishes include; pounded yam and egusi soup, egusi and okro soup, Iyan and egusi, fufu and egusi soup, eba and egusi soup, egusi sauce and rice etc.

Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or roasted/fried before being ground. Chaffs obtained during the oil extraction of egusi seeds can be used for making fried cake snack popularly known as robo cake. The seeds can be fermented and used for making a local spice known as ogiri. Due to its high oil content, egusi seeds can be used for making margarine, butter and animal feed.