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FG To Begin Campaign Against African-Time Syndrome — Lai Mohammed

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says a nation-wide campaign against indiscipline, African-time syndrome and loss of social norms and values will begin before the end of the year.

Mohammed stated this on Tuesday at a strategic planning meeting he held with the chief executives of agencies and other top management staff of the ministry in Abuja.

“You are welcome to this meeting, which I have convened to present to you the template for the massive, nationwide reorientation campaign to be embarked upon by this ministry very soon.

“Those invited to this meeting have been painstakingly selected because I believe they have the necessary expertise to help drive the campaign.

“However, let me state unequivocally, that everyone in the Ministry of Information and Culture as well as its parastatals, is key to the campaign.

“This is because as the lead ministry, we must first buy into the campaign and own it before we can propagate it.’’

The minister said that the National Orientation Agency (NOA) would spearhead the campaign to ensure positive change of attitude, values and behaviours of Nigerians.

“As I have said on several occasions, the National Orientation Agency will be in the forefront of the campaign, because it is in line with its mandate to positively change attitudes, values and behaviours.

“Make no mistake about it, we need to change the way we do things in Nigeria.

“It is important to let our people know that they cannot continue to do things the same way and expect a different result.

“The impending campaign must take on indiscipline, the lack of respect for time, loss of our time-tested values and generally lead to attitudinal change in such a way that there will be a paradigm shift in the way we do things.

“This is also in line with my vision as Minister of Information and Culture.’’

According to him, the ministry has put enormous work into the presentations that it is about to showcase.

He stated that the presentations should be considered the template for the campaign.

“But feel free to critique them and make suggestions so that the campaign can be ready on time for its launch this year unfailingly,’’ the minister added.

Man Develops App To Discipline Children

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Want your child to learn to finally clean up after herself, stop pushing people, or sit down in class? There’s an app for that. Seriously.

A Culver City, Calif., dad, Kevin Spiteri, created the Behavior World app, a positive-reinforcement tool for parents, teachers, and kids,released July 22 — with his Helping Hand Systems business partner, Bryan Saavedra — as a way to help Kevin’s son, Kyle, now 9, who was having a difficult time after Kevin split with Kyle’s mom in 2010.

“The divorce was very tough, on all of us,” Kevin tells Yahoo Parenting. “Kyle started struggling with his behavior in preschool. He was always a superactive kid, but he began doing things like pulling hair and not listening at all, and he kept being sent home.” As occupational therapists who work with children with and without special needs, Kevin and Saavedra (also a dad) know a thing or two about helping kids. But easing this difficult family transition for the boy was proving tough.

“I went as far as paying someone to be with him during the day at school, to make it through the day and not be disruptive to the class,” Kevin says. “I was willing to do anything to help him.”

When Kyle got to kindergarten, Kevin says his boy continued to act out. “There was a period of time when I tried everything to get his behavior under control,” says the single father. “I took away things. I punished him. I was desperate to try to help him gain control over his behavior, and nothing was working. It wasn’t until I used positive reinforcement that I started seeing a lasting change.”

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The most effective way that Kevin says he helped his son adjust his attitude was through a Candy Land-style game he came up with one day, jotted out on a poster with colored squares and the promise of a reward after progressing 10 spots on the chart documenting good behavior. “Kyle wanted this toy that shoots marshmallows,” says Kevin. “So I took a picture of him with it in the store, put that photo at the end of the chart, and worked with his teacher to put a happy-face sticker on his school sheet when he kept his hands to himself and listened well, which advanced him on the board.” It worked, and Kyle got his toy.

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