Mouquie Kongolo is a bilingual educator and translator; a devoted mom, a craft lover and maker, who, over time, has become a change catalyst, driving young people from a place of uncertainty to identifying their true selves, their real-life goals and their place of purpose. Mouquie is a graduate of the University of Nigeria Nsukka; and once used to teach mainstream classes in the language and the social sciences, but not anymore. She is of the opinion that many adults around young people today need to adapt and change their mind- set to be able to raise them effectively.
Her concern is that many adults do not seem to understand that the children of today live in another time; and that raising young people of today the way they were raised four or five decades ago may not entirely work. This, she said, is why most adults of today are finding it difficult to pass on the principles of life to these youngsters. She said: “Principles do not change but methods of teaching them change as we go along.
This I also learnt with my own children. “My son told me when he was just nine years old: ‘Mummy stop shouting, if you shout, I can’t hear you’. This was something I could never have been able to have said to my mother.
Ever! I thought about it and also observed him and realised that the more I yelled, the more he did what I said not to do. So I had to cut a deal with a nine-year old boy. “I told him: ‘I am going to say what I have to say once and if I have to repeat mysel.
