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Helping Your Child Maintain Connections with Their Home Country While Living Abroad

Princess Anyasodor

Moving abroad opens up new opportunities and experiences for families, but it can also lead to a gradual disconnect from one’s roots, especially for children. As children grow up in a new environment, it’s easy for them to feel detached from their home country, particularly when the parents do not actively nurture those cultural ties. It’s crucial for parents to help children embrace both their new identity and the rich heritage of where they come from.

Understanding the Emotional Disconnect

Many children who move abroad at a young age or are born in a new country may grow up identifying solely with their current surroundings. Over time, they might lose interest in their native culture, language, and traditions, especially if those elements aren’t actively preserved at home. One of the often overlooked reasons for this is that parents, while trying to adjust themselves, unintentionally downplay their home country. Understandably, in cases like Nigeria, the economic and social challenges are real. However, constantly speaking negatively about one’s home country in front of children can create a sense of shame or rejection of their roots.

Parents must recognize that although they have moved for a better life, they are still foreigners in their new land. Their children, especially those born abroad, are at risk of growing up without a sense of true belonging neither fully here nor there. In this case, it’s essential to instill pride in where they come from, even while embracing the new.

Celebrating Cultural Traditions

Keep cultural celebrations alive at home. Mark holidays, cook traditional meals, play cultural music, or wear cultural attire during festive seasons. These small yet powerful acts reinforce a sense of identity and help children connect emotionally to their heritage.

Tip: Involve children in these celebrations. Let them learn the meaning behind traditions and take part in preparations. This will create cherished memories and strengthen their cultural ties.

Keeping the Language Alive

Language is one of the strongest links to a person’s heritage. Speak your native language at home or mix it into daily communication. Even if the child responds in the dominant language of the new country, continued exposure helps keep their linguistic connection alive.

Tip: Storytelling, songs, movies, and books in your home language can make learning fun and less forced.

Staying in Touch with Family Back Home

One of the most damaging effects of migration is when children grow up not knowing their extended family. Due to family disputes or emotional distance, some parents may cut ties or limit contact. While parents have every right to protect their well-being, children should not be deprived of the knowledge that they have family back home.

Tip: Arrange regular video calls, send gifts or letters, or even share stories about family members. If possible, plan visits to your home country so children can see where they come from.

Balancing Two Worlds

Teach your child that they don’t have to choose between their identity as a member of the new society and their cultural heritage. They can belong to both. Balance is key.

Encourage friendships across cultures, but also introduce them to children who share similar roots. This helps normalize dual identity and makes them feel less alone in their experience.

Final Thought

Your child’s connection to their roots depends largely on how you present it. If you value and celebrate your culture, they are more likely to do the same. It’s not about glorifying everything back home but recognizing its significance. Let your children grow up knowing where they come from, so they can stand tall wherever they go.

Let me know how has it been for you since you migrated with your kids? Please kindly share, like,comment and also subscribe. I am happy to hear from all of you. till my next post.

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The Life-Changing Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation

Princess Anyasodor

To begin, let me inquire: Can mindfulness meditation truly transform one’s life? My personal answer: It’s a mixed bag. There are moments when I engage in meditation, and it leaves me feeling rejuvenated, calm, and mentally invigorated. On other occasions, my mind feels overwhelmed, making it challenging to achieve the clarity I seek, for reasons I can’t always pinpoint.

Yes, for many people, mindfulness meditation can be life-changing. It has the potential to significantly impact various aspects of one’s life, including mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. Here’s how mindfulness meditation can be life-changing:

In today’s fast-paced and often stressful world, many of us seek refuge from the chaos of daily life. Mindfulness meditation has emerged as a powerful practice that can provide this sanctuary, offering numerous physical, mental, and emotional benefits. In this blog post, we will explore the transformative advantages of mindfulness meditation.

What is Mindfulness Meditation?

Mindfulness meditation is a practice that encourages you to focus your attention on the present moment, becoming fully aware of your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without judgment. This practice, with its roots in ancient Buddhist traditions, has gained widespread popularity due to its effectiveness in promoting well-being.

1. Stress Reduction and Anxiety Management

One of the most well-documented benefits of mindfulness meditation is its ability to reduce stress and anxiety. By teaching you to observe your thoughts without getting caught up in them, mindfulness helps break the cycle of stress and anxiety. Regular practice can lead to a calmer and more relaxed state of mind.

2. Improved Emotional Regulation

Mindfulness meditation empowers you to develop a healthier relationship with your emotions. You become better equipped to observe emotional reactions without immediately acting on them. This emotional awareness can lead to improved self-control and more thoughtful, considered responses to challenging situations.

3. Enhanced Focus and Concentration

In our age of constant distractions, mindfulness meditation can significantly boost your ability to concentrate. It trains your mind to stay present and ignore irrelevant thoughts. With time, this heightened focus can lead to increased productivity and efficiency in your daily tasks.

4. Better Sleep

The calming effects of mindfulness meditation can also improve the quality of your sleep. By quieting the mind and reducing the mental chatter that often keeps us awake, mindfulness can help you fall asleep more easily and experience more restful sleep.

5. Increased Self-Awareness

Mindfulness cultivates self-awareness, allowing you to better understand your thought patterns, beliefs, and reactions. This self-reflection can lead to personal growth, as you gain insights into your behaviors and the ability to make more conscious choices.

6. Pain Management

Mindfulness has been used as an effective tool for managing pain, both physical and emotional. By changing the way you perceive and react to pain, meditation can reduce its intensity and make it more manageable.

7. Greater Resilience

Mindfulness meditation enhances your ability to bounce back from adversity. It encourages a positive outlook and a greater sense of inner strength, helping you face life’s challenges with courage and optimism.

8. Improved Relationships

With better emotional regulation and increased self-awareness, mindfulness can lead to healthier relationships. You become a more compassionate and empathetic individual, which can positively impact your interactions with others.

Getting Started with Mindfulness Meditation

To begin your mindfulness meditation journey, you don’t need any special equipment or a guru. You can start with simple breathing exercises, guided meditations, or by using meditation apps like Headspace or Calm. They actually help me.

Remember that the benefits of mindfulness meditation become more apparent with consistent practice. Start with a few minutes each day, gradually increasing your session lengths as you become more comfortable with the practice.

In conclusion, mindfulness meditation is not just a passing trend; it’s a powerful tool for improving your overall well-being. The benefits of reduced stress, enhanced emotional regulation, better focus, improved sleep, and increased self-awareness can profoundly impact your life. So, why not start your mindfulness meditation practice today and embark on a journey to a more peaceful, balanced, and fulfilling life?

Kindly write how you meditate to or do you practice affirmations? I would love to hear your feedbacks and comments.

Have a wonderful week. Please share, like and comment 🥰🥰 Till the next post bye 😘.

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Daily Post: Day 4; Do your Emotions get a hold on you?

Princess Anyasodor

Welcome back to Daily Post: Day 4. What is it you feel when you feel that you are not enough for anything, Job, Partner, Parents, Work, Friends, Children and even Yourself!!

What triggers your Emotions? As people, we go through emotional problems, and these can ruin a lot of things if we do not control them. Regardless of what and who you are, if you do not have them in Check, it can destroy some valuable things you have going on for yourself.

Emotion is a normal response reacting to your environment, which is quite familiar. These are the things we experience and are considered normal.

Emotions is a conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioural changes in the body

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emotion

Emotions are not permanent and do not last. There are some times in your life when you are down and some times when you feel high, and these things dictate our behaviours.

So how do we create a personal plan before a crisis happen? How do we move with our emotions so as not to interfere with our daily lives? And environment because the more we allow our circumstances or emotion to direct us, the more we see people leave us because it takes so long for them not to see our points of view.

So many of us allow our moods to dictate our lives, and these types of things are detrimental to our healthy being and mental being as well. These are temporary, or else we make them a daily life chatter to become permanent in our life. Some people have gone through lots of traumas and do not have guidance to overcome these traumas.
Do you feel you have ruined a lot of things in your life due to your emotions?
Do you know yourself?

Many of us do not know who we are. It does not matter what you are or who you are. Our emotions can dictate our lives if we let them have the upper hand.
You do need to start paying attention to how you feel when you have these feelings.

You need to know exactly why are you angry? It would help if you allowed yourself to feel whatever you are feeling and not try to shy away. Whatever you are feeling is not an excuse to be insensitive, rude and bossy towards others or yourself. If you need to release it when you feel annoyed (for example) because you did not catch the bus, you need to sit with that thought for a while and then get yourself together.

Sometimes a girl has to laugh 😄.


One day at work, I attended to customers and snapped at them at the slightest questions they asked. Note; I was not taking notice of this. I was angry and irrational that day, so a lady on the line, when it got to her turn(my friend at work), asked me if I was on my period. ( ladies 😊 you all know how it is, right?) I said yes, and she told me to take a deep breath and relax, maybe take a break, drink something, and I would be fine. She then told me how I was behaving. These got me thinking, and I decided to pen the thoughts down. I let my emotions rule me even though I knew I was annoyed but practically nothing. I was deliberating, taking it out on those innocent people. I won’t say it never happened again, but I try as much as possible not to let my anger unto people who have no cents in it.
Do not allow time to pass you by when you are feeling down but instead recognise that you do not have a lot of time to waste on resentment, unforgiveness and hate but rather stand by the scriptures, meditate and maintain the light.

The way we change the quality of our life is a change in our thought

P.A.A

Be anchored unto the word of God or Meditations, peace of God, promises of God and his purpose in your life.
We can make a shift when we are more placed in our Spiritual space.

Some questions were asked in this post. It would be lively to know your thoughts on them. We could have a discussion on them.
I would be glad to see your comment in the box below on how you have tried to overcome the feelings you have had or are still having.

Thank you. We see tomorrow for Day 5.

@princessanyasodor

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Daily Post; Day 1- How can you know what someone is passing through?

Princess Anyasodor

I am standing by the bus station waiting for my bus to come and another bus which was not supposed to stop at that particular bus station stops in front of me and says „I normally do not stop here but where are you headed“? and I told him the train station he said „I am not headed there but I can take you to your destination“ and then I laughed and was cheered and happy that even though that wonderful man did not know me and whatever it is I am going through. He stopped to cheer someone up.

I thanked him and he moved on but that brought me to thinking 🤔. How did he know I needed a laugh or a push or ???.

As I stand here waiting for my bus, my thoughts start rolling. What are people going through? How can you know when people are going through hard times? And not even only that, how can you help? While all these thoughts are going through my mind, I watch people laugh and hold hands; I see a child riding his scooter with a stern face. I see an older man trying to walk down the streets, two young girls chatting and giggling, and the one ☝️question still going through my mind is, How can they know what I am going through?

My thoughts at the end of the day. Pics are taken from Pinterest.

You know nobody looks like what they are going through or dress like what they are going through. Two of my dear friends called me today saying, „Princess, dress up, put on makeup and go out, “ but I do not feel like doing what they suggested. What I feel right now standing by the bus station is to scream my heart out, wear my problems like a cloth so that everyone or anyone can press a stop 🛑 or like ❤️ button on me so as to push these problems away.

But you see that is not the case. And in reality even if it was.., would you be helped by random people? Would people care? Would they ask how well you are doing? Or all they actually want to hear in return is I am fine? Without asking real deep?

Well, my bus came and I drove with the bus to the train Station and there I see and hear a man singing and playing his instruments which also brought smiles to my face. I had to tip him ❤️. Now I am standing, still standing waiting for my train and all I am thinking is Problems NEVER ENDS!

But little snippets of love, care, cheering, word of encouragement, checking up and prayers go a long way.

Here is my daily Post for today. In the next ten days, I will be posting daily and hope I make it through. Could you cross your fingers for me? I hope you are doing well, and you can also share your daily rants and feelings here too, and I will be here to rant with you ❤️.

See you tomorrow here.

@Princesspringles.

Stress, Love, Motivation

Daily Stress

Princess Anyasodor

Before I began writing this post I have trashed about 4 of this piece because every time I start I always ended up writing something else that was not related to it… you see my life?

Now I sit here chewing an Alnatura Kokos chocolate because am soo jittery and stressed.

Stress is something that kills a lot of people and has a lot of detrimental effect on our body, mind and health.
We come across Stress in our daily life and think about how we can prevent our past deeds from reoccurring, in order to avoid being stressed.


This is our daily lives! Going to work, running to get the bus, train, trying to get the kids to school before work, go get them after work, sick, tired, family issues, parents ill, send money back home, school problems, house problems, Jobs on the low rise, People lose their keys, arrive late for appointments and forget to take important trips. Chaos, disorder and lack of plans make our lives difficult. They make our friends mad at us and we get holes in our teeth trying to put some order in it and so on.

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I love this Tree!!! Its beauty is Awesome.🥰


Do you sometimes fantasize about an uncomplicated life? In which everything can be easy without having to deal with all the adversities of everyday life, errands, interruptions and other annoyances?

I do not know if this good life can be achieved.


Nowadays we try to make everything as simple and natural as possible. But can it be achieved?
There is no such thing as a completely simple Stress-free life, but then if we had it, it would probably no longer be life.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.


Peace Pilgrim

Nevertheless, we should try to make it easier all the time, because it gets complicated by itself.
If you don’t make an effort to maintain efficiency, simplicity and order, you soon sink into piles of paper, lose the overview and get overwhelmed with everything around you.

Chaos has always meant danger from the beginning of time. This is another reason why simplicity is a basic human need.
The simplest way offers various steps that affect all important areas of your life: your things, your money, your time, your health, your fellow human beings, your partner, your ego and your spirituality.

Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

Duane Elgin

Struggles, difficulties are part of life’s business. The war we are in is finished. It is said in the Book now thanks be unto God who always causes us to triumph in Christ Jesus. For every battle of life for every difficulty, for every struggle, there is an assurance of victory over anything.


If if you ask me right? Princess how do you deal with your daily Stress hmm (thinking Deeply). I will say at every moment I am stressed, it is always a chain reaction which is from loosing my mind, then getting numb, then trying afterwards to get out of whatever situation I am finding myself in and I act on it immediately.

Truth be told Stress makes me act well. I found out when I am stressed I do things I think normally I would not be able to do it. It takes me out of my comfort zone and pushes me to do more.

Afterwards, I take out my Chilled Red wine (oh yes I like my Red wine chilled) and then drink it because finally I cannot come and kill myself…. 😂😂 I say to myself it will be alright because I am alive and grateful to be so.

My Lovelies how do you deal with your daily stress? What have you learnt about yourself when you are stressed? please do share your stories with me and also like the post and share also with your loved ones.

Happy new month

@Princesspringles