Today’s episode will focus on the story called A Turnaround. This story is about a young girl called Taadi, as Taadi reaches adolescence she becomes distracted from her chores and school work. She uses her life skills in critical thinking and decision making her help her the part of your development from being a child to become an adult when you will seek independence. Independence is an important part of development, but you need to be careful when selecting the opportunities to become independent and not be to open to risks and dangers.

After this episode, you will be able to:

1) Define the terms rights and responsibilities

2) Explain the relationship between rights and responsibilities

3) Describe how the story or Taadi is a good example of how the right to education is related to the responsibility to work hard and apply yourself to your studies.

*This podcast is created from the recordings prepared for the Sierra Leone Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Radio Teaching Programme. The programme is coordinated by the Directorate of Non-Formal Education, with support from UNFPA and Irish Aid.