For parenting to be effective, it has to be intentional. Equipping your children with the necessary skills to survive today's global environment, is giving them the gifts of having one foot through the door. Problem-solving has become one of the go-to skills in the business and regular world. What are you doing with your children?

Do your children have a healthy relationship with anger? Are you equipping them with the right skills needed to become emotionally intelligent adults and not monsters who would become physically aggressive with others? The buck stops on our table as parents, to raise the adults we wish to see.

With a new wave of sexual assault on minors, it is time parents took back the reins. It is time for those conversations we have termed 'uncomfortable'. Open your mouth and save your child's life!

Last week, news of rape cases and a murder circulated round the Nigerian media. Everyone is upset and is condemning these attacks. I am looking at the beginning of the journey and identifying the mistakes we have made as a society, in our parenting styles with the male child.