How to Handle Fever in Children
I was sick throughout my entire childhood, and it was very difficult both for me and my parents. It is never easy to watch your child suffer, because all you want to do is to step in and solve the problem somehow. A fever is…
Serving is My Homecoming
Many of you must surely be familiar with the Chinese Zodiac in some sense. It is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year represented by an animal and its reputed attributes. According to this Zodiac, I am a “pig,” and, for me, the…
You’re with Me
Love is what spins our heads and releases us from the chains of both the past and the future. It is a place where time stands still and space is meaningless, somewhere where we melt into the being of the loved one and experience the…
To The Part of Me Searching for Assurance
When I was a kid, I used to play with this boy in our neighborhood. He would always buy a second chocolate bar before finishing the first one. As he ate the second bar, he would sometimes say, “This is my last chocolate bar!” before…
Are You A Target for Bullies? Then You Are Probably One of Them!
When I was at my late twenties, I had a student for private English lessons. I was teaching him at our home which I lived with my parents. He was a teenager, and was attending to a school nearby. Someday he was really late for…
Bicycle Pump (Part 1)
“Open your palm” he said for the third time. I angled my head slightly to the right to hear a hint of hesitation in his voice. Or maybe in his eyes? But I was nowhere close to lifting my head to look him in the…
Let’s Become Children, Climbing the Trees…
On Sunday, during an outing hosted by our photographer’s studio, my daughter Sonsuz climbed to the top of a tree she found. She is just like a monkey, climbing to the top of any tree she comes across. So far, thanks to God, there’s not…
Parents’ Influence on Children’s Nutrition
Food habits and preferences are developed and established during childhood, so eating and enjoying fatty, salty, and sugary foods (all full of empty calories) in our early years can continue until we die. Nutrition is undoubtedly essential for a child to grow and develop healthily….
Just a Simple Question
The American Psychiatric Association carried out a research study into children and television. It came to the conclusion that the average child is exposed to 40,000 deaths and 200,000 violent acts through TV programs. Our world is a place managed by fear. We are motivated…
A Whole Heap of Money
The other day, my son Dünya emptied all the coins from his piggy bank and spread them in front of his older sister. “Look! I have a whole heap of money!” His sister Sonsuz replied, “Come on, Dünya. This is just chump change, even when…
Love Affairs of Self Destruction
One day I went to the swimming pool with my father. One of us is a Cancer, the other a Pisces; so we like socializing in the water. Instead of meeting at a café we often make plans to see each other in the pool….
Correct Parenting
Do you ever worry that you cannot spend enough money on your children or feel guilty because you cannot send them to a private school? Education is certainly a good and valuable thing, but what our children really need is correct parenting rather than a…
