CAN WE DECIDE Can we decide the right time to put our children in schools? The High Court in India is in a dillema whether to listen to the Committee Report, School Authorities, Parents or just allow children not to be put under pressure at a very young and impressionable age. A child today enters […]
Are You Too Busy for Your Kids?
In his recent newsletter �Happy Kids�, parenting expert Michael Grose (yes he is an expert with three kids of his own) said: Australian parents currently rate achieving work-family balance as their greatest parenting challenge. Currently, 71% of Australian parents say they have difficulty finding time to do the things they enjoy with their children. So […]
Low Cost Technology Saves Poor
Most Zimbabweans – about 70 per cent of the population – live in rural areas and are engaged in smallholder agriculture. These smallholder farmers, particularly in the country’s low rainfall areas, are extremely food insecure and have little or no access to new technology. They suffer from low incomes and a generally low standard of living, […]
Senior Abuse
OUR DISRESPECT OF THE ELDERLY In the new millennium, there is one thing that most folks can agree on when it comes to the mess in our society. We refuse to honor the fifth commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother." Several years back, I was taking a […]
Pre-teens
OUR PRETEENS ARE ON THE EDGE They are not the ones usually mentioned in our society’s ongoing saga about children being our future. If you don’t have kids this age, or aren’t involved in the business of education, the idea that many pre-teens are on edge of being swept under […]
March Snows, April Mud Slinging, May Battles for Poll Position
As snow blanketed Dobbs Ferry in late March, it looked like nature was unfairly siding with the Democratic Committee. The very elements were mocking the nonpartisan idea (Republican) of an election in March. In February, the good Commissioner LaFayette (Democrat) had wisely canceled the referendum in March to move the election to March and spared […]