Posts by Ufedo Love Illah

A Child in a Woman

As a single lady, the struggle was real. I always thought, “maybe he’s the one,” an endless question I kept...

Virginity.

I just came across this poem in my archive. I wrote it as a young girl who was struggling to...

Blackmailing God

Babies overtime learn that crying get’s them what they need and want. So, when they are hungry, they cry! When...

Helping or Helping?

It’s easier,energy-saving and less time-consuming to ‘help’ my children do basic things like feeding, cleaning up after, putting on clothes,...

A Lesson in Pride

I have always thought of myself as a humble lady. If you ask me, I will tell you, I treat...

Mother- in-law

While in the university, whenever my friends and I discussed marriage and other issues, I always said I pray my...

Defense Counsel

While I was single, I worked as an assistant teacher at a private school in Abuja. The teacher who I...

Praying ahead

I saw an article sometime ago, which said the Germans train their children from age five for world cup, when...

Proverbs 5:15-20 (AMP) Against temptations and infidelity

My husband (his name) drinks water from his own cistern(me) And fresh running water from his own well. His springs (children) shall...

Deuteronomy 28:3-13

Deuteronomy 28:3-13

These were the promises God assured the Israelite of having in Canaan, so long as they obeyed, served and acknowledged him...

Colossians 1:9-14

  I ask God that you fill my husband and I(my children, siblings, parents e.t.c) with the knowledge of your...

Proverbs 31:10-31

These verses of the Bible is like my comfort pillow for who God sees when he looks at me and...

Ephesians 3:14-21 (NIV)

  Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, I pray that out of your glorious riches he...

These declarations are God’s word that I hold on to daily(I don’t get to say them daily as much as...

TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE

I saw the news on the kidnapped children and I am very happy for the families and the school. I...

Right Question?

My daughter comes back home from school informing me her teacher left her in class while others went out to...

who wants to move my cheese?

After teaching my daughter a lesson on unconditional love, (Read it here) I heard her often telling me, her father or...

Spare the rod…what rod?

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go and when he’s old, he will not depart...

My Monopoly? yours? whose?

I came to the room to meet Tori and Nugie playing with their brother. I saw that all the buttons...

Handling toddlers…

I hear often, people saying, “don’t shout at your children, talk to them, explain, they will take correction and learn...