IN response to Unicef partners MSU to advance children’s rights: As a moral rule, a physically and mentally sound future should be every child’s fundamental right — along with air, water, food and shelter — especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.
I’m of the school of thought that the health of all children needs to be of real importance to everyone — and not just concern over what other parents’ children might or will cost us as future criminals or costly cases of government care, et cetera — regardless of how well our own children are doing.
Simply mindlessly “minding our own business” often proves humanely devastating.
Society foremostly needs to care about each other, especially concerning child-development health thus needs.
But owing to the “only if it’s in my own backyard” (OIIIMOBY) mindset, the prevailing collective attitude (implicit or subconscious) basically follows: “Why should I care? My family is doing fine,” or “What is in it for me if I care about other people’s children troubles?”
While some people will justify it as normal thus moral human evolutionary function, the self-serving OIIIMOBY can debilitate collective human sustenance and progress, even when such sustenance/progress is most needed.
And it seems this distinct form of societal penny wisdom, but pound foolishness is a very unfortunate human characteristic that’s likely to stay with us.
Interestingly, in protest to the newly-mandated elementary school curriculum that teaches something undoubtedly controversial, a picket sign read: “We don’t co-parent with the government”.
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Yet, maybe a lot of incompetent procreative parents nowadays should.
The author of Childhood Disrupted says: “[Even] well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development” (P24).
Regarding early-life trauma, people tend to know (perhaps commonsensically) that they should not loudly quarrel when, for instance, a baby is in the next room; however, do they know about the intricacies of why not?
Since it cannot fight or flight, a baby stuck in a crib on its back hearing parental discord in the next room can only “move into a third neurological state, known as a ‘freeze’ state … This freeze state is a trauma state” (P123). This causes its brain to improperly develop.
Furthermore, how many of us were aware that since young children completely rely on their parents for protection and sustenance, they will understandably stress over having their parents angry at them for prolonged periods of time?
It makes me question the wisdom of punishing children by sending them to their room without dinner.
Emotional and/or psychological trauma from unhindered toxic abuse typically results in the helpless child’s brain improperly developing.
If allowed to continue for a prolonged period, it can act as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
I feel it’s a form of non-physical-impact brain damage. The lasting emotional and/or psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head.
It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others.
Meantime, general society perceives and treats human reproductive “rights” as though we will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture our children’s naturally developing minds and needs.
Thus people will still procreate regardless of their questionable ability to raise their children in a psychologically functional/healthy manner.
I wonder how much immense long-term suffering might have been prevented had the parent(s) of a future mass shooter or tyrant received, as high school students, some crucial child development science education by way of mandatory curriculum?
After all, dysfunctional and/or abusive parents, for example, may not have had the chance to be anything else due to lack of such education and their own dysfunctional/abusive rearing as children. – Frank Sterle Jr
Ramaphosa must not forget how SA weighed down her neighboursTHE South Africa government has not publicly commented over the ill treatment of a Zimbabwean woman in hospital in South Africa recently.
How can someone who is a doctor direct her verbal attacks on a bed-ridden woman?
The bed-ridden woman said: “We appreciate what you are doing in treating Zimbabweans” and the doctor angrily reacted to that, which is very bad.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa should not forget that during apartheid, a lot of South Africans were exiled in neighbouring countries, Zimbabwe included.
These South African refugees were treated for free in Zimbabwean and other countries’ hospitals and enjoyed free education.
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs ministry should have summoned the South Africa ambassador to Zimbabwe and lodged a formal complaint about how South Africa is treating Zimbabweans, particularly the recent incident of the Zimbabwean woman who was publicly humiliated.
Ramaphosa must know that southern African countries suffered during white colonial rule in South Africa. – Alexio Rashirai
Kudos Sadc for stressing plan for female inclusion in peace actionsTHE Executive Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) while holding a meeting recently in Johannesburg, South Africa, praised the efforts made by Angolan government focused on arranging the regional consultation on the implementation of women, peace and security agenda.
In its final communiqué after the meeting on women, peace and security, the regional organisation highlighted the fact that Angola spared no efforts to include young women in peace and security actions.
The event is part of the sub-region project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the Progress of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa.
The scheme aims at increasing the capacity of regional economic communities and other partners to advocate and support their member States to fulfil their commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment to achieve Agenda 2063.
The overall goal is to provide an opportunity for the Sadc Secretariat to engage member States in the implementation of the women’s peace and security agenda, including the state of development and implementation of national and continental action plans.
Such events also aim to review the implementation of UN resolution No 1325.
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, approved unanimously in 2000, urges the States to address the impacts of the conflict on women and girls and systematically integrate their needs and perspectives to ensure the planning of intervention programmes. – Further Afrika
IN response to Lie low, Chamisa tells supporters, PIKIRAYI says: Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa is right. There is no need for us to get injured, maimed or killed anymore. Zimbabweans need to show their true colours on the ballot box.
GWIZHIKITI says: Zanu PF is at its weakest. The 2023 elections are a turning point. Instead of campaigning for itself, Zanu PF is campaigning for CCC.
IN response to Govt must fix healthcare system, THEMBA MOYO says: What can Zanu PF really fix? It’s been 42 years of looting, corruption and mismanagement. The solution lies in us Zimbabweans. Let’s vote them out. Let us use our numbers to change things.
NJABULO NDEBELE says: How can a person who seeks medical treatment outside the country be a Minister of Health? Something is wrong there. Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga does not see the need to fix the health system.
EDWIN MADIDI MUNGIRIAH says: South Africa must also ban the elite from accessing medical care there.
KAYI CHIKO says: Government will never fix anything. It’s foolish to expect such now. Our leaders have failed to do this for the past four decades. Right now, they are in a race to loot State resources. Zimbabwe will be left with nothing.
IN response to Legislators push for VIP prisons, FRAZER MUZONDO says: Instead of advocating for improvement in the conditions in prisons, they only think about themselves.
WESTERN CAPE says: I can see they are preparing their future homes.
SIMBARASHE BLESSING MUTERO says: It’s good that they are advocating for an improvement in prison conditions because time is coming for them to live in those cells.
BLESSING TSVAKAIWADI NYAUNGWA says: They foresee a dark future after 2023. Some will never see the light again after 2023, unless they flee the country.
MICHAEL MUTSENGI says: What’s VIP about criminals? Temba Mliswa overrates himself so much that he thinks being an MP is an achievement. What criteria should be used to determine whether a criminal is VIP. Such career politicians must never be voted for ever again.
