Helping Parents Succeed
I recently came across a Chinese book at my organic shop.
The book is given away free. In fact, I was attracted by the title of the book.
I took it home and read it. Shockingly, unlike other books I found in the same way, I resonated well with the book.
My wife read it. And she liked it too. [Read more…]
A news report caught my attention:
“Son stages his own kidnapping”
A 25-year old son, buried deeply in debt, wanted to get his 61-old father to help clean his financial mess.
He had an awesome idea. [Read more…]
It sounds counter-intuitive.
How can we learn secrets to a happy marriage from people who have divorced?
Sometimes, that’s how we learn… from mistakes of others.
Meaning if we want to have a happy marriage, we must learn from divorced people. So we don’t make the same mistakes.
That’s how the world works, doesn’t it? [Read more…]
It sounds like Chinese kung fu but it has nothing to do with martial arts.
It’s less glamorous than that.
Flying Mosquito Disease (飞蚊症) is the Chinese colloquial term for eye floaters.
Last Tuesday, I noticed there are exceptionally more flying objects in front of my eyes.
I thought they were mosquitoes or flies. Upon closer look, they are not. [Read more…]
Think we know more than babies?
Think again.
A reader shared with me an interesting experiment she and her friends did when they weaned their babies.
I admit I don’t know about this when J and K were young (I wish I did as it must be interesting). And it’s called baby-led weaning. [Read more…]