Life Xtra

Life Xtra

What’s an 8-year-old doing on Facebook?

Last week my eight year-old nephew sent me a friend request on Facebook. To say the least, I was very shocked to receive it. Shocking still for me was

Abusive relationships: How far can women go defending their men?

The husband, Wasiu Waheed (35), reportedly had a quarrel with his wife and when he saw that he could not silence his wife’s caustic tongue, he decided

Making life decisions through settling for less

Most often when difficulties appear in our lives we feel powerless, causing us to wonder how this could possibly happen to us.We certainly don’t have

‘Every parent has a favourite child’

In his fascinating new book, The Sibling Effect: What Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us, Jeffrey Kluger, a father of two daughters, age

Don’t undervalue yourself

Due to lack of confidence and self esteem, many of us tend to undermine and under value ourselves. In a lot of ways, many of us are self-suppressive o