All right, I know there are many peo­ple my age and old­er who are com­pe­tent on the com­put­er, and some much younger and less com­pe­tent, but com­pe­tence escapes me at times! The cries of “it’s log­i­cal” and “it’s com­mon sense” just tend to frus­trate me when lis­ten­ing to my 20 and 30-some­thing sons who are high […]

A child wasn’t talk­ing by the time he was 3 or 4 years old? Once he was ‘diag­nosed’ and got inter­ven­tion he start­ed talk­ing and had gained flu­en­cy by the time he was 5. He still has no imag­i­na­tive play or sense of humour.  At age 5, on hol­i­day with his par­ents in his grand­par­ents’ house, he […]

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…”. I was called “Miss I Know But”. I was also called a sloth (the dic­tio­nary gives one def­i­n­i­tion as ‘lazy and indolent’!).

As most peo­ple know, locusts swarm. Accord­ing to my Eng­lish dic­tio­nary they also con­sume veg­e­ta­tion of ‘districts’ (whole areas I sup­pose). Anoth­er def­i­n­i­tion is “…person of devour­ing or destruc­tive propen­si­ties”. And it is the peo­ple who act like locusts of whom I was think­ing a few weeks ago. We all know those peo­ple. They seem to […]

These may both have a pur­pose but I think many mod­ern par­ents are los­ing sight of their pur­pose when rais­ing their chil­dren. I under­stand that par­ents get frus­trat­ed when their chil­dren can’t talk and com­mu­ni­cate. If they teach sign lan­guage the child can sign to them when she’s hun­gry, thirsty etc. I recent­ly found my […]