Why are ghosts white? / Are all ghosts white? Why are bananas yellow? Touching my armpit: Why is it so fluffy here? What is pain? Is it like when we feel itchy? (This could be because his younger sister seems to use ‘itai’ and ‘kayui’ interchangeably. Or ‘itai’ for every single unpleasant sensation she might […]
Tag: parenting
Questions from Taiyu, my son
Everyone who has been around children knows that they ask a lot of questions. Some of the questions are mundane and annoying, some make you laugh out loud, some leave you stumped, and some give you real food for thought. The thing is I tend to forget even the most interesting questions from my son, […]
Leaving my full-time job to focus on family
A few days before I returned to work after having my second child, my husband put up a schedule on the kitchen wall. It had the days, times, name of each child and red and green lines for which of us would be ferrying them to or from nursery. Red was him. Green was me. […]