For mental health's sake, let's consider banning Christmas for good!

Christmas anxiety is common, stemming from financial pressure, family dynamics, social expectations, leading to feelings of being overwhelmed, lonely, or stressed by the "perfect holiday’ ideal.”

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Up close: Why I shared a bed with my teenage son for two nights

It all began when I signed up for a parent–child adventure organised by JH Outback Kenya at Dimesse Conference Centre in Karen, Nairobi.

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For mental health's sake, let's consider banning Christmas for good!

Christmas anxiety is common, stemming from financial pressure, family dynamics, social expectations, leading to feelings of being overwhelmed, lonely, or stressed by the "perfect holiday’ ideal.”

By 1 month ago

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Up close: Why I shared a bed with my teenage son for two nights

It all began when I signed up for a parent–child adventure organised by JH Outback Kenya at Dimesse Conference Centre in Karen, Nairobi.

By 1 month ago

For mental health's sake, let's consider banning Christmas for good!

Christmas anxiety is common, stemming from financial pressure, family dynamics, social expectations, leading to feelings of being overwhelmed, lonely, or stressed by the "perfect holiday’ ideal.”

By 1 month ago

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Up close: Why I shared a bed with my teenage son for two nights

It all began when I signed up for a parent–child adventure organised by JH Outback Kenya at Dimesse Conference Centre in Karen, Nairobi.

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Solid mentorship programme is the engine to the future

If education is the key to the future, then a solid mentorship programme is the engine to the future.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

Unread eulogy for a neighbour who died from too much drink

But we are not here to praise our friend but to bury him. And being his good friends, we refuse to let the cause of his death be buried with him.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

Unread speech for a neighbour who died from too much drink

Let us confront the fallacy that reducing alcohol supply will reduce demand. How then does Kenya - where alcohol is sold from behind metal-grilled cages, drink more alcohol than Uganda?

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

Do more to defuse the ticking mental health time bomb

Many Kenyans either do not know or will not accept that they may be suffering from some form of mental illness until someone kills someone, or jumps out a balcony.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

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Many people have cut deal with the devil directly or indirectly

If you will fight or maim or kill in the name of a politician or a political party or leader, you are more steeped in cultism than the fellows getting exhumed in Shakahola.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

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Why only old bones can save Agikuyu from Mukami's curse

Unless someone looks for some old bones to convince Mukami's spirit that her husband's body has finally been found, the country will be haunted by two restless spirits.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

Forget the spin and live with it, cost of living won't come down

The cost of living has been rising and will continue rising every day, as it should in any normal economics curve

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

Time for media and government to stop playing 'cat-and-mouse' game

To a large extent, American TV cartoon series, Tom and Jerry, best describes the relationship between the media and government in Kenya.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

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Cut Ruto some slack, he became Kenya's CEO during hard times

Kenya might have to cut its new CEO some slack: He is a good CEO trying his best to run the ship in the middle of hard times.

By Muchiri Karanja 2 years ago

Maternal and child health key to Kenya’s growth

Low education, low contraceptive use, inimical cultures such as Female Genital Mutilation and child marriage that derail women's self-determination and inadequate health services have kept the region perpetually posting poor health indicators.

By Ambassador Mette Knudsen and Siddharth Chatterjee 10 years ago

Maternal and child health key to growth

Two out of every three cases of maternal deaths occur in areas affected by a humanitarian crisis or fragile conditions like North-Eastern Kenya where focus is being put to give pregnant mothers a fighting chance to survive child birth.

By Ambassador Mette Knudsen and Siddharth Chatterjee 10 years ago