Young north author wants to make it easier for parents, children
She started writing her first book while still in high school. She wrote about the feeling of being in school and the change of behaviour among learners.
As children grow older they tend to develop behaviours some parents may not be aware of, but a young Mabopane woman aims to change that.
Aobakwe Mosime (25) said most parents struggle to take time to understand and realise the change of behaviour their children went through as they spend most of their time at school or at work. She wants make it easier for parents to understand the different stages children go through as they as grow up.
She said children needed attention and to be well taken care of while growing up.
“As they grow up, they develop new characters that need to be attended to.”
Mosime is a life coach and has written two books, Under the Blazer and Getting Closer.
She started writing her first book while still in high school. She wrote about the feeling of being in school and the change of behaviour among learners.
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“My aim was to address issues that pupils face during their high school years and how they expect to be treated,” she said.
“I realised that most of our parents did not find it easy to talk to us as we hit the adolescent stage and our change in behaviour becomes a problem.
“Most parents are not comfortable having serious conversations with their children, which makes most children fear talking to their parents when they have problems,” said Mosime.
She said parents needed to accept that children grew up and changed.
“They need to educate children how to be better adults and how to be good people in the community.
“Having conversations with children helps not to get or develop attitude and rules from the streets. Parents need to build their own children,” she said.
After Mosime’s first book, she wrote her second book which was based on letting people know that it was “still okay when things do not go according to how they were planned or how people expected them to be”.
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“My second book Getting Closer was meant to motivate people not to give up when things do not go as planned. It does not mean they are on the wrong track,” Mosime said.
She said her second book was based on her real life experiences. She wanted to use an example with her own life to motivate others to do better.
“My life did not go as planned. Like any child I planned to go to university after matric, get my life together and find a good paying job and be independent. But that did not happen,” she said.
“I found myself feeling like I was drifting away from my initial goals. I felt like more of a failure, but later on I aligned with my actual purpose,” said Mosime.
She said she realised that her passion was to help people get their lives together and motivate others to become better people.
She wants to help and motivate young people who are still in school to always follow their dreams and not let the negativity of others to weigh them down.
“Building yourself means being strong in all aspects of life. Dreams and goals that are being wished for can become real if they are worked on,” said Mosime.
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