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One of the papers I presented to the Nigerian Tribune; entitled; 'CRITICAL ANALYSIS; HOW FAMILY COACHES CAN GET PARENTS INVOLVED IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN was read and reviewed by a professional and was published on October 10, 2024.  Please read 👇👇👇

https://tribuneonlineng.com/critical-analysis-of-how-family-coaches-can-help-parents-involve-in-the-early-childhood-education-of-their-children-by-akinropo-akinola/

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PATHWAY TO FATHERHOOD IS ON AMAZON 

Your darling book is now listed on Amazon. Yes, this calls for celebration because a lot of people have reached out to me who wanted it on Amazon. Now, it is here. What are you waiting for? 

It comes in Kindle and paperback. Easy to read on Kindle and for those who love paperback, it is shelve appeal 👌 

Now you can embark on a fatherhood and parenting journey like never before by discovering and accessing the 7 keys to GREATNESS in fatherhood in this resource material. 

Thank you. 

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2 years ago
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Transform your locks with effortless elegance! 

Discover the magic touch of our skilled stylist for flawless hair twists that turn heads effortlessly.

Well done girl 👏👏👏 by @parentingwithakinropo
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2 years ago
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Insecurity and Band.itry will be gone When Parenting Institutions Are Fixed. 

If there is any of my weekly paper presentations that has stretched my capacity to study more is my article series on Nigeria's missing security strategy. A series I started two weeks ago. 

Over the past decade, Nigeria has allocated over ₦26 trillion to defence and security. Yet banditry, kidnapping, and insurgency have only intensified.

Why?

Because we have been fighting the load while ignoring the wobbled leg beneath it. 'Amúkùún ẹrù ẹ wọ, óní t'òkè lẹrí ẹ ò rí tìsàlè" we continue to fix the head while the leg is already wobbled. 

The "leg" is the Nigerian family; fractured, unstable, and unsupported. Ban.dits and insurgents are not born; they are made in homes where neglect, trau.ma, and instability are the only inheritance.

On Sunday, July 26, 2027, this publication entitled; Cradle of Insecurity: Why National Parenting Institutions Are Nigeria's Missing Security Strategy. I continue to explore how national parenting institutions can become Nigeria's most cost-effective countermeasure against insecurity.

What to expect in this series:

1. Comparative analysis of 5 nations—Brazil, Malaysia, Qatar, Jamaica, and Türkiye—that have institutionalised parenting as national security policy.

2. Empirical data on what works: Brazil's violence reduction, Malaysia's scalable preschool model, Qatar's permanent institutional framework. 

3. Pitfalls Nigeria must avoid to escape the "copy-paste" trap; from ignoring our ethnoreligious diversity to neglecting structural implementation capacity.

4. A culturally grounded, federal-compatible pathway forward—rooted in Yoruba wisdom, indigenous knowledge systems, and Nigeria's lived realities.

The core thesis is Investing in parenting institutions is not charity. It is proactive security infrastructure, cheaper than fighter jets and more sustainable than military operations.

Every child raised in a stable, emotionally supportive home is less likely to become a recruit for banditry or insurgency.

Why this mattematter2027? 

As Nigeria approaches the February 2027 elections, we must ask every candidate: 

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Quotes from PBAT and President Erdoğan 

"Strong families are a national security and development asset. Society that invest in family stability reduce vulnerability and longterm instability" - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

"Strong individuals constitute strong families, strong families constitute strong nations, and strong nations constitute strong states" - President Erdoğan of Turkey 🇹🇷 

Remarkably, unimaginable joy leaped in me, when President Bola Tinubu took direct notice of this emerging global consensus following his January 2026 state visit to Türkiye—where Nigeria signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding on family cohesion;

President Tinubu formally declared 2026 as Nigeria’s “Year of Social Development and Families,” placing the family unit at the heart of the nation’s development strategy...........

Building on the comparative analysis of Türkiye, Brazil, Malaysia, Qatar and Jamaica, this section criticalally examines how Nigeria might adopt or adapt their National parenting institutions whole navigating the complex terrain of ethnicity, religion, culture and tradition. 

Pls read on. Cradle Of Insecurity: Institutionalizing National Parenting Infrastruct https://share.google/cmKITio5AzclP0qbj

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Daily Father Sparks | Akinropo Akinola 
Theme: Community Parenting – A Father to Many

Date: Monday, July 13, 2026

A father is not defined only by the children he births, but by the children he builds. Be kind to every child you see. Be a father to a child around you. Provide what you can in your capacity. That single act of kindness can turn society for good. Fathers are nation builders. Huge responsibility is thrust upon them.

At the burial of my uncle; the first man who demonstrated to me WHO A FATHER IS, last week, there was a torrent of testimonies. Family members, nephews, and neighbours all spoke. But one story struck me deeply.

My uncle was an embodiment of community parenting. His doors were always open. Boys in the Omisore family – nephews, cousins, and relatives – found shelter in his house. He took in boys during their teenage years, when they were most vulnerable. I can count about 35 to 40 boys, including myself, who passed through his home.

Many of us could have ended up on the streets as urchins if he had not been magnanimous. But he flung his doors open. He provided a safe haven. He gave us not just a roof, but also direction, values, and a sense of belonging.

That is the heart of community parenting. It is the understanding that every child is our child. It is the refusal to say: "Not my child, not my problem."

My uncle did not just raise his own children. He raised a generation. Many of us who passed through his home are now fathers, professionals, and contributors to society.

One single man. One open door. Thirty to forty lives changed. Imagine if every father did the same. Imagine the ripple effect.

What This Means for Fathers: 

Your influence is not limited to your biological children. There are children in your neighbourhood, your faith centers, your extended family who need a father figure.
· Open your space. It does not have to be elaborate. A listening ear. A word of encouragement. A safe place to study. A meal. Small acts, big impact.

· You are a nation builder. When you invest in a child who is not yours, you are investing in the future of your community, your country, your continent.

Today's Spark 
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My researched paper on bandi.try is out. 

Amúkùún ẹrù ẹ wọ, ó ní tòkè lẹrí, ẹ ò rí tìsàlè”. You do not blame a knock-kneed man for not carrying his load properly; you focus on the weight on his head while forgetting that his leg is always wobbled.

This agelong Yoruba wisdom offers a searing diagnostic lens for Nigeria’s escalating banditry crisis. For over a decade, the Nigerian state has fixated exclusively on the load—deploying fighter jets, surveillance drones, and thousands of troops to dislodge armed groups from forests and enclaves......

Yet, the legs—the fragile, fractured, and emotionally starved homes from which these young gunmen emerge—remain utterly ignored. We interrogate the ammunition supplier, but we refuse to interrogate the childhood that produced the triggerman.

We map the bandits’ routes, but we refuse to map the parental neglect, intergenerational trauma, and household instability that serve as their primary recruitment pipelines. Such is the folly of fighting banditry in Nigeria..

Pls read on here 
Cradle Of Insecurity: Institutionalizing National Parenting Infrastruct https://share.google/Wzptvp782FSDS5q6J

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I have worked with a few co-parents with 4 different coparenting models in the past 6 year and I am super excited that these models have worked. 

for the first time in my professional work, I am making this open to interested co-parents to come onboard 

It's hightime to stopped surviving co-parenting and start thriving. 

If you're tired of strained relationship with your partner, miscommunication, and feeling like you're raising kids in two different worlds—this webinar is for YOU.

I'm hosting a FREE live webinar called Parallel to Partner, with Mrs Funmi Oni, and we are spilling everything wr know about moving from conflict to collaboration.

July 12 | 5PM (WAT) 

Venue: YouTube Live

What you'll get:
✅ The #1 shift that changes everything
✅ A script for your next tough conversation
✅ Replay if you can't make it live

Link to register in my  BIO. 

Drop a 🙋 in the comments if you're joining!

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Paper alert on banditry!!! 
National parenting hubs as frontline countermeasures against band.itry social insecurity, insurgen.cy and kidn.app.ing 

In this paper, I ran a comparative analysis on how other nations who once faced similar security challenges have achieved remarkable success by adopting National parenting hubs to combat band.itry 

The family institution must be placed at the heart of National priorities, grounded in the belief that family is the first fortress of society 

Keep a date with me on Sunday, July 12, 2026, on New Telegraph Newspaper

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I conclude this paper series Part III, by synthesizing lessons from the Nigerian nationalists I personally interacted with: 

Those whose autobiographies and documented interviews provided rare glimpses into their childhoods—alongside the childhood experiences series of over 400 eminent individuals from America and Europe, as documented in the classic book Cradles of Eminence by Victor Goertzel, Mildred George Goertzel, and Ariel M. Hansen.

From these two rich sources, I have distilled four interventions and strategies that African parents can adopt to cradle eminence in their children. These strategies are not Western imports.

They are principles that transcend geography; principles that, when applied through an African lens, can produce the kind of eminent adults that Africa desperately needs to build its future.........

Pls read on African Homes Psychological Well-Being: Hidden Foundation Of Ch https://share.google/XWLOJO36AYkfAENcR

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18 days ago
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Guitar for beginners! 
On the chord of ...........

What chord am I even playing sef? 
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22 days ago
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Africa has what it takes to cradle eminence in our children.

African homes must raise children who are proud of their heritage, grounded in their culture, and equipped to export Africa's resources and ideas to the world..... 

The Nigerian nationalists I interviewed embodied this principle. They spoke of parents who taught them the history of their people, the meaning of their names, the significance of their traditions, and the dignity of their culture. They were raised to see themselves not as poor Africans needing to be saved but as rich inheritors of ancient civilizations needing to be shared. 

Concluding part of my paper entitled: African Homes’ Psychological Well-Being: Hidden Foundation Of Child Eminence (III) will be live on Sunday, July 5th, on New Telegraph newspaper. 

Watch out!!! by @parentingwithakinropo
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