Category: Parenting

Last night my 4 year old girl was complaining of a tummy ache.  Maybe she ate too much.  This girl tends to eat too much.  Auntie tapped lightly on her big tummy and sure enough it sounded like a little drum.  Too much air, gas trapped inside.  Time for...

Our 7 year old boy was slow to breakfast this morning.  I went to him and saw him still lying down rubbing his right eye.  I see it was itching and inflamed and red.  Oh no, does this mean another missed day at school? I remembered I had Eli...

My 5 year old boy started having his tummy ache last Monday morning and threw up empty fluid.  I think it was due to either bad food, maybe from the tiny oranges kyat kyat imported from China and / or that “cake” called “sansrival” that was given to him...

This morning my 5 year old boy was not able to go to school.  He had stomach pain.  He threw up some fluid this morning.  Not food.  In fact last night he only had tiny oranges for dinner… kyat kyat they call it. Last night we went to an...

I do not own a television.  We gave away our tiny television 7 years ago.  I own a couple of computers personally and in my company office for my employees… but none of them have television transmission receivers, no cable subscriptions.  You should try zero television for at least...

Again this year my family escaped the new year fireworks smoke and pollution.  This time we drove up to sleep over at the Sierra Madre hotel on top of the Sierra Madre mountains… probably still part of the province of Rizal.  Majestic view, clean, windy and pure mountain air,...

Yesterday I had our cook prepare half cooked beef liver steaks for my children as part of my push for the tooth decay cure for my 7 year old boy.  I had the cook set aside a hand sized slice for myself but it was too late, she had...