Which I wanted to briefly recollect here based on two trips, one in India and one not far from home in Hong Kong. These are the epidemy we love to hear arent they? These artistical injecton of bubbling lovely effort to raise our awareness and our energy levels. To push them higher towards humble and [...]
Asked to circum-travel the world, in his lovely wisdom, Ganesha decides to travel in circle around his parents. A cute story and a cute animation too. To refresh the feeling towards the parents.
I spent more than an hour skyping with Clara and Vicky from England yesterday at my office. These two young girls, we were living together in Italy few years ago when I was nanny and their mother was pregnant of the third child. At office I did not have the microphone so could only write down everything [...]
Da di hao mei
jiao ai
hai shifang leng
tong shi tai yang
tigong nuan huo
wanmei hexie
[translation: the earth is very beautiful/her name is love/and she gives cool/while the sun gives her warmth/perfect harmony]
There was no question in my family that my sister and I would be given the same opportunities in my life as my brothers. Nor was there in Islam. We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam infact had been [...]
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I have two close examples which support the fact that children can learn a new language not necessarily from mother tongue teachers.
The first is a long study to which by myself I participated in 1998-1999 with a master thesis in Rome. Based on the main idea of Bruner about constructivism in psychology and learning processes [...]
Mrs. Michelle Obama explains from US the importance of starting to create an environment aimed to respect the wishes of all the children.
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If one day you may decide you want to do something cute for a long term then please take Chinese language classes. This language has strong sweet connotations and they can even be absorbed in the character and attitude! Learning Chinese is good because:
It makes you smile
It transmits a real sense of purity to yourself
It [...]
The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box.
“There are five things you need to know,” he told the pencil, “before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be:
1.You will be able to do many [...]
