Tag: "Life"

Single Parents In South Africa – How To Manage The Hard Life

The rise in the number of single parents is not limited to the Western world. In South Africa in 1998, over a fifth of all households were run by single parents.

As is true everywhere, single parenthood results from separation or divorce, death, and pregnancy outside of wedlock. In addition to widespread problems with AIDS, South Africa continues to experience increasingly high rate of teenage pregnancy.

This means that single mothers are bearing the brunt of serious poverty early and life without the benefit of support systems. The more traditional South African communities still believe that mothers should be responsible for rearing the children and giving care within the home. And they have the added burden of caring for family and children affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Dec 30, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

A New Way of Learning Life Through Summer Camps in France

Summer camps offer a world of opportunity to the participants to socialize and develop new skills. Besides, they are the ideal place to help the children understand and appreciate the value of independence, friendship, team work. More and more parents, these days, are encouraging their children to participate in summer camps providing an informative way of spending summer vacation and having fun simultaneously. With so many organisations around offering summer camp services, it may be confusing for the parents to select the best one for their children. A traditional summer camp will offer the options like sports, swimming, art and craft for children. But a language summer camp is a unique way of enjoying vacation along with learning a new language.

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Dec 08, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Children Full of Life (1 of 5)

“In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.”

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Dec 07, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Parenting – 10 Things That Will Improve Family Life

10 parenting tips that all parents should implement every day to improve their family’s life and make it easier.

Parenting tip 1

Good parenting is remembering to tell your child you love them and not stopping – even when they so tall that they can look down on you. Do this regardless of how they behave because although you may not like his behavior you do love him.

Parenting tip 2

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Dec 01, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post