We have to teach our children skills to stay safe

Karen Pillay|Published

Train children to understand what a safe place is, even within the confines of their own car.

We need to do more to protect child rape victims

Karen Pillay|Published

We recently marked Child Protection Week. However, statistics released in parliament show that at least 41% of all reported rape cases over the past three years ...

Shoe on the other foot as women become providers

Karen Pillay|Published

Most of the women complained that they were the major breadwinners and were finding it challenging to deal with their home dynamics.

Are Indians ashamed of their roots and culture?

Karen Pillay|Published

These conversations that Adventures of 9 Boy shares actually revives our memories of childhood and growing up in our Indian communities, of a certain aunt, uncle ...

Teach boys to respect girls within your family

Karen Pillay|Published

Invariably the perpetrators are close family members, friends, intimate partners, spouses or someone known.

Be careful when posting images of kids online

Karen Pillay|Published

It is important when taking and uploading photos of children that permission must be sought from parents and legal guardians prior to taking the photo or using the ...

Create a 'Flossy Posse' to fill that empty nest

Karen Pillay|Published

We can see from the experiences of our parent?s generation that it becomes more difficult as you get older, especially if one is in the 60 to 70-year age group, ...