New book on connecting with Gen Z offers insightful lessons
His book, 'The Gen Z Parent: From Confusion to Connection', offers fresh ideas to connect with Gen Z, who are currently pushing for reforms in governance and workspaces.
Renowned public speaker and mentor Nixon Nyadiero at one point developed a strained relationship with his Gen Z children.
After figuring out how to mend the deteriorated relationship in his household, Nyadiero penned a book to share insights into the generation touted by some as rebellious.
His book, The Gen Z Parent: From Confusion to Connection, offers fresh ideas to connect with Gen Z, who are currently pushing for reforms in governance and workspaces.
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Nyadiero's manual seeks to enable parents to understand Gen Z's generational battles and suggests three perspectives, including a candid focus on the youths' world view.
"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 realise issuing marching orders often amounts to nothing but an exercise in futility," Nyadiero notes in the book's introduction.
The book's 10 chapters are easy to navigate. For instance, in Background Factor and a Parent's Excesses, Nyadiero recounts how his parents passed away when he was 17 years old and narrates the experience as excruciatingly painful and devastating.
"I lost some ground in my relationship with my children every time I permitted them to witness any form of antagonism in the manner I related to their mother," admitted Nyadiero as he shared tips on relationships and marriage.
As for networking, the author encourages the younger generation to unrelentingly pursue their passion and dreams.
Recollecting the June 2024 protests against the Finance Bill and the events surrounding the storming of Parliament, Nyadiero observed that the art of listening, which, according to him, is lacking in many people, including the government today.
He noted that there are hard lessons that parents and those in power ought to learn from the June 24 events. " 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."
The founding chairman of Africa's Promise, an international NGO focused on empowering the youth, highlighted that there is more to life than providing for your children and facilitating a comfortable lifestyle.
He observed that when it comes to subjects such as drugs and dealing with addictions, society has numbed itself, where substance abuse and sex, as a topic, have become taboo between parents and children.
The vacuum, Nyadiero said, has seen children left to their own devices, often soliciting such information from suspect sources.
The book is currently available at Amazon and Nuria Bookstore.
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