Poems to my mother...

Dear Lord, today I turn to you to give you thanks for my mother...

Love your Mom this Mother's Day

Surrounded by stunning views of Table Mountain, The Eatery at Durbanville Hills Wines offers you the chance to celebrate your amazing mom this Mother’s Day.

. Chilly days and long nights; soup-suppers and cozy nesting nights. It’s also cough-and-sniffle season for the unwary. “Don’t get caught,” says PharmaChoice spokesperson, pharmacist Liezl van Tonder. She offers essential flu facts to get you through the season without coming down with a cold or flu:

Do you want to be fabulous at 40, fit at fifty, sexy at 60 and sassy at 70? Are you looking to unlock the secrets of healthy ageing and maybe rejuvenate body and soul in the process? Let Patrick Holford and 30 other top health specialists show you how at the Positive Ageing Edutalks & Expo, taking place from 2-4 March 2012 at the Misty Hills Hotel in Muldersdrift, Gauteng.

A key issue in developing stable, interactive, confident, happy children is that of CONTRIBUTION! This is very important! It creates a sense of belonging, of involvement and of ownership.

More and more women experiencing frequent miscarriages are learning of natural killer (NK) cells as the potential culprits behind their inability to achieve an ongoing pregnancy. And while killer cells are in fact our protectors against various infections and diseases such as cancer, they are being pinpointed in medical circles as a potential cause of infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss with increasing regularity.

Lia Mundell is a second year Wits English Major student who has just completed the internationally certified 200 hour Yoga Teacher’s Training Certificate at Yoga Warrior Studio in Rosebank, Johannesburg. She is, to date, the youngest successful graduate.

Ten articles from the Spice4life archives aimed at helping moms (and dads!)

Where there is a lot of advise that we can cover on this extensive topic I would just like to highlight these tips to help you create some normality in your currently chaotic life:

Sadly and totally shockingly, not a day goes by that we don’t open up the newspaper or magazine, listen to the radio or watch the news or even surf the web without seeing or hearing about another young child that has gone missing.

This was written by a young girl who was in jail for drug charges, and was addicted to crystal meth. She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read, she fully grasped the horrors of the drug, as she tells in this simple, yet profound poem.

I am a mother of 3 young children who has discovered that being a mom is not as glamorous as Posh Spice makes it look.

Every child will at some point in their lives have to deal with conflict and resolution. As a teacher and character edutainer, I realize that the best I can do is to help children become experts of their own process. What does that mean?

No one can really describe what love is. It is in itself, hard enough to grasp being clean and sober! - Now being in active addiction for most of your life, the concept of love is something of a disastrous mystery!

With this generation, authority does work (sometimes), particularly in the early years when “because I am your parent and I said so” still has some magical power to it, or if you have actively positioned yourself as a hero in your child’s life story.

November is the month set aside for observing children’s rights; my heart goes out to every parent in South Africa. Our constitution is celebrated as one of the most liberal globally but lately maybe too liberal.

If there is one thing I can say with certainty about rape in any country it is this: the rape survivor is not in control of what happens. The rapist is. If the survivor were in control then the rape wouldn’t happen. It is not up to women to prevent rape.

This article is an attempt to get into the Guinness book of records for the world’s fastest article ever written with load shedding. I have just seen that we are without electricity for the next 4 hours and I have limited time available on my notebook battery, so here goes.

When a person is first diagnosed with epilepsy they are likely to feel rather shocked and confused. However, an epilepsy diagnosis is not a disaster.

Johan came to me really upset. His four year old body looking strong and energetic but his face bore the sadness of a friendship in conflict. He sadly said, “Justin said he doesn't want to be my friend anymore.”

Do you find yourself feeling like you could literally be ill with the stress you carry around every day? Here are some tips on minimising stress in your life.

Autism is characterised by a “triad of impairments” which include difficulties with language and communication, difficulties with social interactions; and behaviours which are repetitive and stereotyped in nature.

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