In our family, I have only a younger brother. He is 8 years younger than I am so for 8 years, I learned to keep myself busy without a playmate in the house. Even though I had friends in the neighbourhood, I also learned to be on my own.

Sometimes, we can look at someone slipping on the ice and we just can’t help ourselves from laughing, even if we know it is not funny for the person who slip. I guess that is what happens when something unexpected unfolds in front of us.

Kids can perceive the world of adults in a very special way. You read about how my daughter, when she was four, mixed up two “stories” to make one that was logical in her mind, but totally hilarious for us, adults. I think that the age of four must be

When the kids were young (and even now that they are grown up), i always had a fascination to remove splinters. Since we would often do outdoor activities, walk on a wooden boardwalk, play on a wooden deck, splinters were common and the kids knew i could usually take them

Although the rules in school might still forbid chewing gum in class for various reasons, that rule was also enforced when I was a kid. In a way, I was lucky because I never liked chewing gum so it was unlikely for me to get caught, but others did.

When my brother was younger, it had to learn, like any other kids, how to put his shoes in the right foot. Like any other kids, it was a learning curve. That might seem very ordinary, but we happened to witness something really funny about this logic when learning left