1 December 2014

Leader or bully?

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We’d all like our children to be leaders, to think they are leader-material. The race for leadership crops up in all walks of academic life, from class president to magazine editorial board. There are many qualities that make a leader and many more that make a great leader.

At the same time, none of us wants our child to be a bully. Yet academic life is the most common setting for bullying. Just as there is a thin line of distinction between confidence and arrogance, humility and subservience, genius and madness; there is just a thin line separating leadership from bullying. ‘Kids don’t suddenly...

Appears illegally in the December 2014 issue of
Tampa Bay Parenting

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"It's very well-written and could be of great interest to our readers. This could be a great way to help parents make the connection between their parenting style and their own little tyrant-in-training. :-) I'd enjoy working with you to bring this article to our Oak Meadow community and the wider educational and homeschooling circles. I'm so happy to have your piece included in this issue of Living Education."
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Living Education

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Editor-at-Large
Fredericksburg Parent & Family Magazine

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Kids On The Coast

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Today's Child Magazine

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Bible Advocate / Now What?

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Prism Magazine

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Family And Parenting

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Hudson Valley Parent


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Los Angeles Parent

15 November 2014

Spicing up your season(h)ing!

Devil’s Dung. Not exactly the most flattering epithet for something that is eaten with such relish in parts of the world. Stinking Gum? Not much better. Food Of The Gods. Ah, now that’s more like it.

My finger runs down the definition in the guide. Asafoetida i.e. Ferula assafoetida, family Apiaceae, it says, is a species of Ferula native to Iran. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to two metres in height, with stout, hollow, somewhat succulent stems that are five to eight centimetres in diameter at the base of the plant. The leaves are thirty to forty centimetres long, tripinnate in...


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Kitchen Garden

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Edible Michiana

1 November 2014

Supporting the leaders of tomorrow

My mind is blank, my throat, dry. My heartbeat has slowed down to the point that I can't tell if blood is coursing through my veins or not. My breathing is almost non-existent. My eyes are unseeing.

“One moment please,” I hear a feeble voice say from very far away and realise, with a jolt, it is mine. I open my fist, which until now has been tightly closed, smoothen out a crumpled piece of paper and place it infront of me. I scan it in desperation, looking for a familiar word but the paper could well have been written in cipher for all I can read. I look up again. The auditorium is silent. The faces stare back...

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Texas Home School Coalition Review

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Home Education Magazine

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Practical Homeschooling

1 October 2014

Is your child a leader or a bully? (Learn to recognise the signs)

We’d all like our children to be leaders, to think they are leader-material. The race for leadership crops up in all walks of academic life, from class president to magazine editorial board. There are many qualities that make a leader and many more that make a great leader.

At the same time, none of us wants our child to be a bully. Yet academic life is the most common setting for bullying. Just as there is a thin line of distinction between confidence and arrogance, humility and subservience, genius and madness; there is just a thin line separating leadership from bullying. ‘Kids don’t suddenly...

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"I loved your article and would love to have it featured in (an) upcoming issue."
Susan Koppel
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Today's Child Magazine

"It has some good things to say"
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Bible Advocate / Now What?

"It is good"
Kristyn Komarnicki
Editor
Prism Magazine

"Really like it and will definitely include it"
James Cole
Group Editor
Family And Parenting

"The article looks good"
Melody Tan
Associate Editor
Signs Of The Times

"I would love to use this story in our (future) issue."
Brittany Morgan
ex-Editor
Hudson Valley Parent


"The subject matter is great"
Christina Elston
Editor
Los Angeles Parent

20 September 2014

Back at work - How to cope with a new world and bounce back into work after a hiatus

‘I’m taking a sabbatical to have a baby!’ I announced to my editors, publishers and writer friends. After the initial wave of congratulations, well-meaning advice ('Icecream is great for reducing heartburn!') and jokes ('A writer going out of circulation for a change, ha ha!') had subsided, conversation turned to the inevitable question. ‘When are you planning to return to work?’ they asked. ‘I don’t really know at this point,’ was my truthful answer. What I did know was that it was going to be an important, serious and potential uncomfortable choice to make, and one that could be life-changing...

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