Career-Driven Mom Takes Year Leave to Focus on Son’s Speaking Woes, Shares It Never Held Her Back
his life, but it hasn’t hindered her career path in the slightest.
Ifeoma, from Lagos, Nigeria, shared on social media in January this year, speaking to fellow parent professionals, reassuring them that a career break needn’t deter them from being successful.
“In June 2015, they told me my [6-year-old] son had to repeat the class due to speech challenges,” Ifeoma explained on LinkedIn on her son’s 10th birthday. Being held back, she said, would place her son OJ in the same class as his “bossy little sister” a humiliation few brothers would relish.