Category Archives: Conversations with a Child
My Youngest with a Beautiful Heart
Why doesn’t this kindergartener want to go to school? It’s, up to you, parents, to figure that out, as she is with, limited vocabulary, to tell you what is exactly, going on at school with her, translated… My youngest started … Continue reading
A World without Opposites
Interactions of a mother and her son, translated… My four-year-old son would often smile, but he gets angry easily too; but he’s unafraid of making me angry, and would remind me, that I’d stayed angry, for too long. So surprising, … Continue reading
The Air, My Friend
The column by Jimi Liao, translated… The Clouds Rose Higher and Higher, I’m on Top of It All, Looking Down on Everything. As I Was Basking in the Glories, I’d Slowly Felt, that There Wasn’t Enough Air, It’d Become…Difficult…for Me…to…Breathe … Continue reading
I Love You Guys a Lot
not my photo… The conversation with a child, before bedtime, translated… My son is almost four, I’d let him act as independent as possible, going to the bathrooms by himself, cleaning up the bowls and dishes he used for meals, … Continue reading
Explanations of Why the World is the Way it is to a Young Child…
Originally posted on lois e. linkens: i catch glimpses of you on the high street in the supermarket in the park. each day, i feel the touch of your pea-sized toes and the grip of your precious fingers, beckoning me … Continue reading
Four Questions that Surfaced from Watching Snow White Again
There are more purposes than pure entertainment that children can get from those fairytales, translated… I know of a lot of moms who would unintentionally tell their children those fairytales with princesses, because the characters of the schema of the … Continue reading
Posted in Beliefs, Child Development, Childhood Innocence, Conversations with a Child, Experiences of Life, Gender Roles, Interactions of Parents & Childlren, Lessons of Life, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, Socialization, Values of Life
Tagged Questioning How the World Works, Training Children to Question Things in the World
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The Trials in Young Zheng-Rong’s Life
Encounters, the trials, of life for this young boy, and now, they’d, lost touch, translated… 13737…… I’d, worked up the courage, dialed the digits, hoping, to hear the voice of Zheng-Rong. The Compassion Home in Guanxi’s young Zheng-Rong was taken … Continue reading
Reason Why I Chose to be a Single Mother
On being a single parent, translated… Some readers wrote me and asked: would your child ask for her father? Normally, when someone asks this, that means, that the person is facing such difficulties too. I’d thought, for long, and hard, … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Conversations with a Child, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, the Consequences of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Choices in Life, Explaning Why Her Child Only Lives with Her Mom, Single-Parent Families
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You Can Think on It, My Son is Crazy But I Love Him Anyways
The straight-line thinking processes of a young child, translated… and, you DO see, how these things can be, attractive to a young child, right??? Not my photograph… My son’s recent fads were the glow-in-the-dark sticks that they hand out at … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 