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No. 154: KUKURU DANGER™ – 5 True Stories About the Adventures – & Misadventures! – of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life (FREE 20 PAGE BOOK PREVIEW)
This week, I continue my call on experts-who-speak in the education “industry” to offer programs to influence school curriculums towards better equipping students to succeed in the real world.
I offer a FREE preview of my new book, which is based on the same theme, for interested experts to review.
Here are some excerpts…
“The stories you are about to read describe events that occurred during the turbulent early years of my life. I originally conceived this “story book” idea as a gift to my kids, to mark my 44th birthday anniversary.
The insights and tips I offer in the pages that follow, can guide you to make better preparations to coach your kids to succeed in adulthood.
In particular, the ideas I share can help you intelligently handle yourself and your child whenever s/he does wrong – no matter how bad. And in the long run, you are likely to be able to help him/her recover/bounce back, and move on to even greater heights.
It is my hope, that parents who read (and/or listen to audio narrations of) my stories, will do so with their kids, or challenge their kids to do it in their own time.
Doing so is likely to help you connect and bond better with one another. Reading/hearing me narrate how I goofed up – time and time again – as a child, and how, with guidance from my parents and responsible adults in society I was able to reform myself, can give you useful parenting insights.
And your kids will learn from my mistakes.
In other words, you will be better equipped to guide your child to navigate the potentially confusing jungle of his/her formative years’ experiences, to become a competent adult…
…I would NEVER want to see my daughter go topless anywhere, talk less on the cover of a magazine. I don’t care if a goddess or “Diva” does it, and gets rich in the process.
I know the Creator would never approve of it.
However, I also know I cannot force my child to LIVE right. Instead, I have to guide her develop similar morals, values, and the strength of character to stick with them, no matter what others say.
Let those who believe in doing what’s popular say you’re being old fashioned. It won’t matter, as long as you play your God-given role CORRECTLY in the life of the wonderful child the Creator gifted you!
I urge you to read this book to the end, and even give copies as gifts to your children and/or grandchildren, if you have them.
But don’t stop there. Like I’ve said towards the end, you will need to take diligent and consistent action to coach those kids you give, to make intelligent use of what they learn from reading the book, to keep going in the right direction.
I’ll say more on this under “Further Reading” (page 75).”
– Tayo K. Solagbade in “KUKURU DANGER™ – 5 True Stories About the Adventures – & Misadventures! – of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life“
Below: Text of the book’s description on its back cover
In this unusual book, Tayo Solagbade narrates 5 true stories about a dizzying variety of (sometimes shocking) escapades he engaged in – while schooling – that repeatedly landed him in trouble, causing his parents avoidable heart breaks.
In the first story, Tayo suffers the embarrassment of having a female classmate falsely accuse him – to their class teacher – of peeping at her in the girls’ room! He would however shake off the potentially traumatizing experience, to earn a double promotion into secondary school one year ahead of his class, in 1980.
At the age of 10, in his first year in secondary school, Kukuru Danger™ (Tayo’s alter ego) joins a notorious group of students, in a bid to escape frequent bullying from bigger and older classmates.
Over the course of the year, they routinely sneak out of school to eat meals at Mai Shai shops without paying, steal coins from traders’ slot machines, and catch crabs at the Lagoon front!
At a point, Kukuru™ begins stealing money from home, to play the slots. But he soon gets caught.
By the school year’s end his mother is shocked to read the principal’s comments at the bottom of his report card, saying “To repeat for cheating”.
She eventually learns that Kukuru™ had let his friends copy his script during the exams. So, despite passing all subjects, the disciplinary panel decided he should repeat the year as well.
His disappointed parents decide he should start over in a new school. In 1981, he resumes first year in C & S College, Ilorin, and spends 4 years keeping his promise to his parents, to stay out of trouble.
Then he gets appointed Health Prefect in his final year. And suddenly, he goes haywire again.
This time, he and some friends begin missing classes to hunt bush rats, and at a point graduate to poaching the vice principal’s backyard poultry farm chickens!
Tayo’s brother tries to warn him to stop, but gets told off. Until one day, they are caught and sent on suspension. But they do not go home, and instead, they roam the streets, eating and sleeping in a stranger’s home, and later sneaking back to sleep in the hostels.
His guardian eventually visits the school, and Tayo is forced to go home, where his parents later meet him, and his father reads him the riot act.
Before the book ends, you are told how Tayo vows to redeem himself by passing the final exams.
But after the exams, he and a friend have a near death experience, when a violent “thug-like” student that Tayo got sent on indefinite suspension, came with armed gang members to confront him at the train station, on his last night in Ilorin.
The fifth and final story tells of how one year later, Tayo learnt the hard way, that fighting is NEVER the answer to conflicts.
While attending A-Levels in Government College Kaduna, he got beaten black and blue by a Form 5 student, who was technically junior to him.
However, by the end of the session, Tayo succeeds in earning the respect of that student and others, by accidentally employing a timeless strategy used by succesful people worldwide, for centuries!
In narrating each story, Tayo offers potentially useful insights for both parents and their kids based on his successful self-reformation. This book is ultimately about dealing with peer pressure. So it is sprinkled with quotes on peer pressure – for people of all ages – to help add perspective.
“The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.” – Walt Mueller
Below: Clickable thumbnail versions of the book’s front and back covers.
What you have read above are excerpts from my new book, from which I now offer a 20 page FREE PDF preview for download by interested persons.
Click here, to request the FREE PDF preview of the new paperback book now.
You will be taken to a request form. Within seconds of filling and submitting it, the download link will be sent to the email address you supply.
And ONCE AGAIN, I urge you to share it as far and wide as you possibly can!
If you are a parent, teacher or school owner interested in getting my help with regard to the above, click here to contact me!
“There’s a world outside school that your child must be ready for, if she is to succeed.
Because you arrived in it, before her, YOU are an expert in it, compared to her. If you truly love your child therefore, you can – and should – share YOUR EXPERTISE about succeeding in the world, to help her learn how to EXCEL in it.
This book [Kukuru Danger™] uses narratives of true life childhood experiences of a brilliant but wayward child, who later reformed himself, as a basis for offering practical tips and insights you can use.” – Tayo K. Solagbade. Best Practice Parenting Advocate™ & Location Independent Multipreneur.
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