This ques­tion was posed to a small group of eight of us at a col­lege tuto­r­i­al. The tutor had been teach­ing at the col­lege for many years and must have remained so clois­tered in her aca­d­e­m­ic world that she didn’t know what was going on in the ‘big wide world’ out­side! At 23 and having […]

*Dis­claimer – I’m not a doc­tor, nurse or dieti­cian* Don’t com­plain about anoth­er acronym to remem­ber – this one’s easy! D – Diet E – Exer­cise R – Reduce stress T – Ten­der Lov­ing Care Check out every­one you know who has: chil­dren with devel­op­men­tal or behav­iour­al issues, rel­a­tives with Alzheimer’s, peo­ple going through post sur­gi­cal rehab, […]

My ‘forward motion’ (in life) seems to have stalled of late. I don’t feel I am in a posi­tion to com­plain to my friends – just about every­one had one trau­ma or anoth­er last month alone, with a cou­ple more com­ing up this month!  But I do need to feel I am mov­ing for­ward with my life. […]

Nev­er lose sight of your chil­dren! What I mean is – always keep them on your radar. In almost every instance of a child being ‘lost’ either phys­i­cal­ly or psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly one or both par­ents didn’t have them on their radar. Now the obvi­ous phys­i­cal way to ‘lose’ your child can be in a super­mar­ket or department […]

I am para­phras­ing the bib­li­cal admo­ni­tion to ‘teach a man to fish and…’ When we don’t con­scious­ly work on teach­ing our chil­dren, any child, to speak we are depriv­ing them of life itself. A child who can speak well can accom­plish more than a child who reads well – I know. I was a child […]