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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]