Ten years after South Korean ferry disaster, mothers express their grief on stage
Ansan, South Korea Reuters For Lee Mi-kyung, whose son was one of the 250 children who died in South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster 10 years ago, coping with the grief and anger has been incredibly hard. She works through her pain on stage. “I will no longer hide in darkness, nor be defeated by sorrow, […]
Improve at school
Being married to a teacher and, as a parent, here are some simple things you can do with your children, that will have a huge impact on their schooling. PICTURE: note thanun/Unsplash Be interested and positive about school. Ask your children what they did each day, show interest. Support the teacher. Help them with their homework. […]
Read to your kids
Being married to a teacher and, as a parent, I can tell you one of the simplest things you can do with your children, that will have the biggest impact on their schooling. Are you ready? PICTURE: Picsea/Unsplash Read to them, every night. Doesn’t really matter what you read, but a children’s Bible is a classic. […]
Re-parenting
Many of our personal problems can be traced back to the way we were parented. Were we encouraged or ignored? Loved or Abandoned? Emptied of ego, taught to move from wants to needs? To care for others? PICTURE: Julianne Liebermann/Unsplash The research around this is challenging. Often what we need is re-parenting. Who will do that for […]
Parents and children
All the research tells us, and all school teachers know, that most of the issues children have are simply echoes of their parent’s issues. Of course, no parent wants to hear that. PICTURE: Piron Guillaume/Unsplash Why? Because faced with our faults, we feel shame – and shame shuts us down. What a terrible catch-22. How […]
Essay: Russia’s war in Ukraine threatens students daily and forces teachers to improvise
In an article first published on The Conversation, KRISTINA HOOK, assistant professor of conflict management at Kennesaw State University, looks at the efforts of countless teachers and parents to keep more than eight million children in Ukraine educated…
Sight-Seeing: Living with your parents – intentionally – can be life-giving
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article published by Religion News Service, says multi-generational living doesn’t have to mean living in the basement…
Ethiopian parents appeal for help to evacuate students stranded by Tigray war
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters The parents of thousands of Ethiopian students stranded in the war-ravaged northern region of Tigray on Friday appealed for help to evacuate them after the main university warned it could not feed them for much longer amid food and cash shortages. Mekelle University, which gets its budget from the Federal Government, posted […]
In Japan, foreign parents lead charge against child “abduction”
Tokyo, JapanReuters A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them. The issue of what media in Japan and overseas call parental child “abduction” […]
GENTLE
When I was four, I remember throwing a ball around the dining room. Something I knew was wrong. Hiding place? PICTURE: Elliott Stallion/Unsplash Well, I knocked over a vase in the middle of the table and it broke. “Oh no! What was I going to do?” Being an exceptionally intelligent and wily four-year-old, I hid where […]