My life experience As a child my parents always expected me to get a qualification and be employed. My parents never once told me to go out there and start my business, or go out there and be a leader. Their ambition for me was to get into a profession that had job security. I […]
As the vaccine for Covid19 is now out and travel might soon open up, I realised that there is a possibility that travelling may soon be possible. I began reminiscing about the most memorable travels that I feel have impacted my children positively. Travelling back to Zimbabwe is one that I feel has made my
When the Covid19 pandemic started, I was shocked at how much we relied on shopping for all our day to day needs. Even though we do have a small vegetable patch, the thought of always relying on an outside source put me in a state of panic. I then realised why my grandparents lived well
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When I was in my 20s I was involved in a car accident and I ended up staying in hospital for a few months. I ended up having three operations on both my legs to repair the fractured tibia plateau and tibia and fibular and my pelvic bone. I had to move out of our
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Life experiences When we moved to the UK, we were under the illusion that we would have a servant/maid as we had back home. No one had warned us that childcare would be a challenge and that childcare was so expensive. Childcare can cost the same amount as a basic wage for one of you.
Life lessons Growing up we lived in a middle-class suburb with really nice houses, but my parents never once did anything to improve the house since they bought it from a white family who lived there before. If something broke it was never repaired if it was not necessary. I remember when we moved in
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Life experiences Now that children have gone back to school, I realised that more extra curricular activities which cannot be done on line may also start once the country if fully open. It got me thinking about how and why we got our children to take part in activities when when we first arrived in
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One day while playing in the snow with my little one, we found a worm and I was a bit worried about her not being comfortable with seeing the worm in the garden. To my surprise she picked it up, and she decided that it was going to be her pet. ‘It’s so cute!\’ she
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As a child growing up in a former British colonial country, we were always encouraged to read English books to improve our vocabulary. I never once had anyone mention any mindset or self-help books. The one book that everyone encouraged me to read was the Bible. This was okay but the Bible is very broad
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