By Correspondent

Renowned public speaker and mentor Nixon Nyadiero Sekoh had at one point developed a strained relationship between him and his Generation Z children. After figuring out how to solve the matter of his deteriorated relationships in his own household, he decided to pen a book for everyone on how to understand a generation considered rebellious.

His book, ” The Gen Z Parent: From Confusion to Connection” offers fresh entry into ideas on how to connect to Generation Z, who are currently the talk of governance spaces, parenting and workspaces.

Nyadiero’s book stands out as a manual that will enable every parent to understand generational battles and issues that cripple the mindset of a young person. He suggests three perspectives in handling the Generation Z; a candid focus on where the young people are coming from, where they are going and the world that they live in.

Despite the book solving bigger societal challenges that other generations have with Generation Z like in politics and governance, Nyadiero chooses to view solving the deterioration of relationship between Generation Z and the status quo through his writing on parenting.

“In light of the foregoing, most of us tend to learn the hard way insofar as parenting Gen Z and Gen Alpha is concerned. Albeit gradually, we realize issuing marching orders often amounts to nothing but an exercise in futility,” Nyadiero notes in the book’s introduction.

The 10-chapter book is easy to navigate as it tackles each aspect of connection with Gen Zs with precision. For instance, in Chapter titled, ” Background Factor and a Parent’s Excesses,” Nyadiero recounts how his own parents passed away when he was 17 years old. He narrates the experience as excruciatingly painful and devastating.

To those who are married, Nyadiero cautions that a man’s relationship with his wife is crucial if he’s looking for a cordial relationship with his children.

“I lost some grounds in my relationship with my children every time I permitted them to witness any form of antagonism in the way I related with their mother,” admits Nyadiero.

The author’s love for mentorship is easy to note in his work. When writing about networks and net worths, he encourages the younger generation to unrelentingly pursue their passion every time he talks with them. He equally in such talks insists on the need to nurture their networks in pursuit of their dreams.

Perhaps his biggest and most significant chapter is about the art of listening that according to him is lacking in many people, including the government today.

He remembers the events of June 2024 protests against the Finance Bill that led to the torching of Parliament. He narrates that there are hard lessons that parents, and those in power together, ought to learn from the episode. ” It is sad to own up to the fact that failure to listen to our children could easily plunge us into a worse situation than what we witnessed in June) July 2024.”

Nyadiero talks too about character, values and the age of technology. He notes here that there is more to life than providing for your children and facilitating a comfortable lifestyle. Ensuring all the needs of your children are met is commendable but this is not all there is in life.

Nyadiero also explores the subjects of drugs and substance abuse and dealing with addictions. In the chapter that exhaustively deals with sex and sexuality, he comfortably confronts a topic most parents get shy to discuss with their youthful children. He wonders how the society has reached a place where sex as a topic became a taboo that could not be canvassed between parents and children. Because of the existence of a vacuum, Nyadiero reveals that children have been left to their own devices, often soliciting such information from very suspect sources.

Nyadiero unsurprisingly draws most of his lessons and observations from the Bible and his own real life experiences, hence making reading the book not only exciting but confounding and timely.

The writer’s decision to pen the book is not a surprise to people who have interacted with his mentorship passion that is grounded in strong belief of good morals. He is the founding chairman of Africa’s Promise, an international NGO focused on empowering the youth. He is a public speaker, mentor, and serves on the boards of multiple organisations. The book is currently available at Amazon and Nuria Bookstore.