What do children wonder about?
As a teacher I was trained to provide children with correct and appropriate answers. And ironically it was not the…
Cloth Nappies
For the past 20 years, most mothers have unfortunately considered disposable nappies as essential. For the past 20 years, 95%…
Why Ritalin makes me MAD!
Saturday afternoon at the Wits Club in Jo’burg and Dr Shabeer Jeeva steps up to the microphone. The audience of…
How to be a Greener Cloth Nappy User
There has been a lot of talk about cloth nappies lately and I have heard many people refer to some…
One head is better than two
In the struggle to solve the environmental problems we have created, the most precious tool we have is imagination. If…
Feng Shui in the classroom
As with many things in life, it started rather innocently. I stumbled across an item in the German news magazine…
Eco-friendly Nappies
After having a baby in 2002, Vicki Penfold was shocked not only at the enormous cost involved in using disposable…
ADHD: an illness of generations
ADD children — also called Indigo children — are very sensitive to environmental and electrical pollution, noise and poor nutrition.…
Disempowering the unborn
Two years ago my eldest daughter gave birth to a baby boy (her third child). It was a classic home…
Something’s Gone Wrong
Dr. Elaine Lee explores the crisis in our education system. What do we want from our educational system? A reasonable…