Archive for August, 2005

25th of August, 2005

Advices

Posted by admin in All, Values and Characters at 11:14 pm | Permanent Link

Recently, I was asked to give advices on how to raise children. This is what comes into my mind.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — William Butler Yeats
My son’s 7th grade humanity teacher gave parents this quote from Yeats on the curriculum night and she asked [...]



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14th of August, 2005

Your child is listened to, understood and supported?

Posted by admin in All, Values and Characters at 11:12 pm | Permanent Link

I recently read an article on overparenting from the Reader’s digest’s current issue (www.rd.com, September 2005). It discussed how today’s parents have tried to create a perfect childhood for their children. By doing so, it may acutually hurt the children’s ability to face real life in the future.
At the end, it showed an example of [...]



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