Insight

Did you do your homework last month? What’s your child’s (or children’s) love language? Now for a little game. Three Truths and a Lie: 1. “ET home phone.” 2. “No-I am your father.” 3. “Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” 4. “If you build it,…

Today while contemplating what “amazing wisdom” I could dispense for this article, and with two kids at home vying for my attention, (my oldest and my youngest), I realised that two things were occurring. 1. It only seemed like yesterday that my 13-year-old was my 3-year- old. 2. That time…

The Top 10 things I’ve learnt during Covid-19 levels: All the words to the Moana movie and both Frozen movies. That all the grandiose ideas I had while being on Level 4, were too grandiose. My kids surprised me with their resilience and their willingness to see the good in…

Kids have a weird way of bringing you back to reality. Just when you think you’ve done something quite well, or mastered a tiny bit of parenting, they either ‘roast’ you, or prove you wrong. This happened to me while I was “teaching” during lockdown. I was continually reminded by…