Monthly Archives: December 2007
The Survival of Curiosity
When I asked a question at home (there was no pre-school) the answers must seldom have suited me because my response was always “I know, but…â€. I was called “Miss I Know Butâ€. I was also called a sloth (the dictionary gives one definition as ‘lazy and indolent’!).
What were they thinking?
Picture this scenario: a baby is born in a water bath (a warm hot tub) surrounded by friends of the parents and the paternal grandparents. Mother nurses her baby and takes some time away from her full time medical studies to initially care for her child. The child is still nursing at a year but the […]