I’ve always said right in the beginning that Discipline is a very sensitive subject. So whenever I am asked about what we do and use as disciplinary methods/tools. I always hesitate to share especially if I know the parents are young, educated and all into attachment parenting which most modern parents are 😉 Why? Because we spank. […] Read more…
Month: November 2013
Gluten (and grains) really isn’t that great for us
Yes, that is the takeway for me after listening to a 8-day eSummit called The Gluten Summit put together by Dr Tom O’Bryan and his team. He gathered 29 different speakers, each a leader in his/her own field of specialty (including cardiologists, neurologists, nutritionists) to educate the general public and healthcare practitioners not just about celiac disease […] Read more…
Who determines what is beautiful?
Covered in the Straits Times recently was a syndicated newspaper article from NY Times about the number of Venezuelan women who undergo plastic surgery to change the way they look in order to look beautiful. And then closely following that was a syndicated AFP report on the increasing numbers of teen girls and women having genital cosmetic surgery […] Read more…
Keeping it real
It is easy to present a front when we are writing our blogs or when we are on social media because we usually only post the high points of our lives and the pictures where we look good 😛 Sure there are some who gripe all the time but those are rare in a society […] Read more…
A love-hate relationship with the internet
In the past month, I came across 2 stories about children, porn and the internet that have made me wish that we could go back to the time when the internet wasn’t so easily available. Story #1 : an article circulating on Facebook about a 13 year old boy who has been listed on a Sex […] Read more…
Moving away from the “dr says” mindset
Over the years, I have slowly moved our family away from mainstream health treatments, realising that a lot of times the doctors we see are treating the symptoms and not the root cause. This does not mean we don’t ever see a doctor and we don’t take any medication. We do. Really. Just that we […] Read more…