children

  • Kids and Calamity

    We were watching a documentary of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 recently. It was quite interesting although a bit too dramatised for me. When we wanted to watch it, my wife and I said to our children that this happened years ago, back when the oldest of them was still in the womb. I also…

  • Roles and Characters

    I went to my children’s Parent’s Evening session recently, where parents are invited to meet with their children’s teacher and discuss about their children. This has been the 6th time that I went to one of these I think, since coming to the UK. It is quite useful, and especially very important early on as…

  • Cease and Deceased

    The legal term is normally cease and desist. Autocorrect even suggested that. But I am thinking of the people who have passed away during the genocide. How many people were deceased before the ceasefire was ‘agreed’. At least 60,000. If they’re connected to 8 people each, that’s almost half a million people grieving for their…

  • Children, Culture and Games

    My daughter has a few close friends from school, whom she calls BFFs, and they share similar interests like artsy stuff, reading books and something else which I don’t pretend I know. But sometimes she does relate about how her friends do this or that differently compared to her doing it, so despite their similarities,…