I saw a piece today from the BBC on how they trialled doing meditation sessions with kids in a school and are now rolling out to the whole school after seeing the benefits to the children. I’ve always been a big fan of mediation, although I have yet to make it a habit in my busy lifestyle. I’ve heard someone…
Category: Life lessons
Halloween – good or bad?
Tomorrow at my work it is “Bring your kids to work” day. It’s the first time they’ve organised a day like this with activities for the kids to enjoy. It also coincides with Halloween so the kids are going in costume and there will be a Halloween party for kids and adults afterwards. My kids have been waiting for this…
I don’t ever want to go to strict school!!
Miss Z has been a really great student from the outset. She loves all the activities and everything they talk about and she was exceptional at reading from the moment she learned her a b c’s. When she arrived at Year 1 I was quite pleased that she, once again, had a very nice teacher that was upbeat and joyful.…
Will all our kids be entrepreneurs?
These days there is a big hype about entrepreneurship. The global recession caused thousands worldwide to lose their jobs and their homes and people found themselves trapped in unemployment. Middle aged folks find it much harder to get another job, especially in a dwindling economy. There has been huge exodus from poorer countries to wealthier countries in search of better…
Ageing sucks!
The other day I read one of those letters that go viral on Facebook and it brought me to tears. These days this is easily achieved. I don’t know if my emotions changed after I had children or if I was always a softy that used to have a hard shell. This letter was from an old woman writing to…
Equal, not identical!
A couple of weeks ago the US navy announced that they were tripling the Maternity leave entitlement for Navy Moms-to-be. This was of course great news as it could be the start of something bigger for US women in general. We have a Women group chat at work and there was immediately some chatter about this and how it was…
The silver lining of loss
While I was in the US this past week I was chilling out in my room in the evening perusing my Facebook news feed. I bumped into this post from Sheryl Sandberg (the COO of Facebook). Sheryl is possibly one of the most successful women in technology today and so she’s a role model to me. A source of inspiration…
What you wish you knew before having kids
I was at a meet up this evening where a panel of women talked to an audience (made up mainly of women) about the stuff we should all know about having kids and managing a career before we have them. I was pleased to see an audience with a varied age demographic. Most of these women work in and around…
Arachnophobia and the like…
When I was a kid I was scared to death of certain bugs. Strangely, I didn’t mind (and in fact played with) a whole other set of bugs. I liked butterflies and lady birds. I played with ants and those little crawlies that curl up into a ball when you touch them (and that I have no idea of their…
Happy Parents…
Happy parents make for happy kids – you’ve heard that before right? I totally agree. So what do you do if you’re unhappy in your relationship? What really is the best way for you and your children? I’ve know many folks of my parents’ generation that stuck together even though the love was long gone. Whether because of the children,…