A strange thing about being a child is the ease with which one becomes homesick. As adults, we tend to have to go away more often, and generally have made the biggest voyage anyone ever makes – leaving home to live somewhere else. But when all that you have really known is the [...]
Children are creatures of habit. At a certain age, most of us will probably have had a favorite food that, without fail, we would request for dinner just about every evening. As parents, we know well enough that a balanced diet demands variety, and have to decline a request to have hamburgers for a third [...]
When you are young, you do not realise the value of good memories because you have not yet built up a strong bank of fond recollections. You are more interested in the here and now than the things that happened last week or even yesterday. The unfortunate thing about this is that, as time goes [...]
One of the things that catch a child’s attention - almost as soon as they are capable of grasping simple concepts - is technology. There are few children who do not wonder, early on, how those people get inside the TV. This often leads to scary but retrospectively amusing incidents involving a child trying to [...]
Most people say this with a bit of sarcasm: “Oh the joy of traveling with kids.” As they say this they are simultaneously envisioning kids running up and down the tight aisles of a crowded airplane, bumping into airline attendants and spilling soda everywhere while the parents frantically try to figure out how to get [...]