I hear a lot in the US about work-life balance. The concept is increasingly at the forefront of consciousness as we all think hard about the roles we want to play in the world and in our own families. Most large corporations at least pay lip service to the notion that work-life balance is desirable… Continue reading Balancing Career and Family – Over Years
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Raising a Non-Believer
A reader has just written to me: “One was on an essay about Religion as a Cause of Strife in the World – you can bet she went to town on that!” this is a comment you wrote on Ross’ India Diary and i have always wanted to ask you why you believe that Ross… Continue reading Raising a Non-Believer
She’s Leaving Home
What with all the preparations, end of the school year, and various family medical traumas, I have barely had time to dwell on the fact that our daughter is about to leave home. It’s just as well that I haven’t had that time. Ross will be away for a full ten months (yes, I will… Continue reading She’s Leaving Home
Raising a Confident Daughter
One of my newsletter readers asked for child-raising advice. Well, that’s putting it a bit strongly, but, apropos of my own daughter, she asked: “…what do you think contributed to her self-confidence and caring for others?” …and I felt an article coming on. Not that I have definitive answers, or simple ones. I have wondered… Continue reading Raising a Confident Daughter
Dental Trauma
At five months, human babies love the world and trust everybody in it. When I took her in for a routine pediatric checkup, my daughter Rossella smiled and gurgled and laughed, assuming that everyone in the world loved her, and nothing and no one would hurt her. The checkup required that a little blood be… Continue reading Dental Trauma