Last evening , a friend VK asked me, “How is your elder son doing?” VK is a kind man who is temporarily taking care of a child in neglect. Out of concern, he asked how I coped with the challenges of raising a child with special needs. My […]
A Boy Who Thinks Cleaning Is Somebody Else’s Job One Sunday, a ten-year-old boy interrupted the swim coach, SC, who was giving my son Kyan individual coaching. “Yucks! Coach, there is tissue paper in the water over there.” The coach replied, “So, what are you going to do about it?” “I don’t know. It’s […]
Know Why Children Suddenly Dislike Reading Parents are blamed for the things that their children do, and not do. When children do not read books, parents are told to read more books to them. And parents are questioned if they are setting a good example of reading books […]
Are You Done With Reading To Children? I thought the days of reading books to my children were over. I do not know how many parents still read books to their adolescent children. Like many parents, I read books to them when they were young. Now that they have […]
An Insensitive Remark Two days ago, I received an alert to look out for an autistic child X who had gone missing. What would you have done? Some people might have carried on with their own business without batting an eyelid. Some people might have taken a closer […]
It’s no laughing matter to see somebody’s marriage in tatters After the news broke out about how Hong Kong’s most beloved Cantonpop diva, Sammi Cheng (鄭秀文) was cheated by her husband Andy Hui (許志安), who was caught on video canoodling with another woman, it quickly became the gossip […]
Have friends who feel for you Last week, I wrote about the biggest worry of caregivers – what happens to a child who needs special care after the caregiver passes on? I wrote to encourage others. Instead, I received encouraging messages from others. A friend HP felt the […]
What’ll happen to my child after I pass on? The worry of leaving behind a child who may not survive alone in the outside world weighs heavily on the minds of parents with special needs children. I have the same worry. My elder son Kyan, aged fifteen, is […]
Be a role model at all times? Parents are often told to set a good example for their children. It is a tall order to be a role model at all times. Most parents do their best in the presence of their children, but they inevitably fall short […]
