Monthly Archives: May 2007
Food for thought
Does anyone know how much of our food is coming from China?
I was in my local store the other day and as is my custom I checked the ‘country of origin’ of most of the products I was contemplating buying, in this case frozen bay scallops – farm raised in China.
Needless to say – or do I […]
Simple Remedies
There are simple remedies for developmental delays (barring physical causes). This will astound many people, especially scientists, researchers, and career parents, to name a few.
These highly intelligent individuals, many of whom have children on the autism spectrum, have the intelligence and power to learn what to do to allow their children to return to normal development.
Astonishing isn’t […]
“Puddles are for splashing in, sticks are for picking up”
Imagine your life as a modern child. Can you imagine it? Probably not, because the operative word in the sentence is ‘modern’.
There is no childhood any more. I know of few children who live an early life of freedom, happiness and good cheer.
Parents aren’t choosing freedom for their children – they are choosing a caged life for […]
Non-maternal child care
Tell me why we even need such a phrase in our vocabulary?
It is of course that we live in a society where non-maternal care has become the norm.
The phrase comes up querying whether there is a statistical link between early non-maternal care and autism, classroom behaviour in later years, developmental delays, speech delays, vocabulary deficits and a […]
Courage As A Primary Goal
I seem to flip flop between being courageous and not. I am usually more courageous when I have returned from England, as I have recently. Perhaps I feel more valid when I’m there?
I can usually be very courageous for anyone in my family or close friends of any age. My ideas flow well and I can […]