Friendly competition is energising.
It makes you run faster, think smarter, and push harder because you know the other person is doing the same. Everyone knows the race is on, and the wins push both sides higher.
Covert competition is different. There’s no handshake at the starting line. No mutual respect. Just someone quietly keeping score while trying to tilt the field so you never notice you’re playing.
I am writing to ask for tips on how to help children cope with moving. Because moving is so much more than just physically moving from one home to another. It’s all the relationships, the bonds, the routines with people with whom they spend their days. In my daughter’s case, it’s even the language.
What is a parent’s role?
Every culture has its iteration of what it means to be a parent. What is the parent’s job? In Italy many children stay home until they’re married. So, the role of a parent extends far beyond say, in Australia…
Almost 2 weeks ago, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl – my first baby. And since then I’ve been doing my 30 days confinement with the baby and with my mother helping me… What it means to be a new mother
Best hangover cures and things that occur to me when I’m feeling particularly under the weather. Tips I’m passing on with a grain of “do as I say, and not as I do” – but of course, what I will do from now on too!