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Starting a new journey with your child is always full of surprises and joyess experiences. Regardless of their age, seeing that look of surprise on their face when they discover something new in their life is priceless. Learning something new that they can do or achieve themselves is also an experience for you as the teacher to be proud of. It begins like this. Making a statement like "Did you know that you have the capability to grow that 'plant' yourself" pointing at possib

The looks are priceless, even if the mess attached to this new adventure, can end up being somewhat of a cleanup task. Those first days when you decide it's time your child fed themself.  That endless fight to control the spoon is coming to an end and you're slowly relinquishing your grip. Sure, you've learnt there's a right and a wrong time to let go when the pressure to control is being backed up with a strength that only a beginner musters when they're determined to win. F

“Lookout!” may have well been the cry as hands dived from all directions to try and catch the half-loaded spoon before it hits the floor and disperses its contents in all directions. The perpetrator being your beautiful child. The highchair challenges that confront us are the keyways to knowledge for ourselves and our children to learn from.  On a certain day, you decide your child is confident enough to carry the spoon from the plate to their mouth. One day you will be trick

Something as simple as a loaf of bread or a delicious cake, would not normally be associated with a frightening and dangerous situation. And if you've made a sandwich with the intention of providing a healthy lunch for your child, only to be told it's not really what they prefer, then maybe it's time to explain that they don't really know how dangerous it was to get that piece of bread to the supermarket shelf. When the look of 'confusion' replaces the look of 'yuck' and is a

As we live in a world surrounded by continuing wars in various countries and constantly reported on by most forms of media, our children are exposed to the terrifying realities confronted by many other kids worldwide. And although those locations may be on the other side of the earth or at least well away from where we might currently live, the frightening exposure to the atrocities that confront those far away children in those distant wartorn places. The shocking images bea