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A Good Word..

Posted in Childcare, Children, Teaching, behaviour, culture, preschool, religion, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I can’t believe it’s September already.. This year has flown by..
If you’re celebrating the start of Ramadan today – may you have a blessed Ramadan Mubarak.
If you’re not, keep this quote from the Qur’an in mind anyway..
“A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in [...]

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Boys Will Be Boys..

Posted in Childcare, Children, Family, Motherhood, Rant, Teaching, Work, behaviour, parenting, preschool, tagged , , , , , , , on May 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »

There’s a child in my class who very clearly has behavioural problems. He bites, kicks and pushes the other children, and sticks his tongue out at adults when they speak to him. His mother seems to think this is all perfectly normal behaviour, replying with “Oh, haha, boys will be boys!” whenever anyone [...]

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Social Norms in a Virtual World..

Posted in Internet Culture, Psychology, Social Norms, Sociology, behaviour, culture, freedom, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »

To me, virtual/online worlds conjure up images of freedom…
I’ve never participated in a community in Second Life – but after reading about SL in various media articles, I gave in and checked it out.
If I’m going to be brutally honest, it looked horribly boring.. A game without rules and restrictions, or a fancy, pixelated [...]

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