Swart Donkey

Some things take time. A lot of time. We marvel at how children learn, and yet forget just how much space and time we give them to learn. ...

The big issues facing most people I know are around where they live, who they spend their time with, what they are working towards, their h...

Social Media keeps us connected to each others lives, but only bits of it. I find it a great catalyst for real world interactions, and am a...

I grew up with most of my world in a 5km radius. The beach (at 14km) was far away. But the world is changing.  There is a big difference be...

There are tight constraints on where the rules of money making work. Money is not an indication of value. Value is intrinsic, and deeply p...

Although I went down the financial route in my studies, and choice of work, most of my extended family have been involved in the caring pr...

There are two types of poverty. The hard poverty is the structural societal community barriers that hold people back. The hard poverty rev...

One thing the bubble I grew up in didn't lack was female role models amongst my peer group . From my mother, grandmother, aunts, cousin...

I have been lucky enough to be invited into the homes of a number of my friends and family since I started writing full time. Quality v Qua...

Antoinette is awesome. She is one of those people that make me feel warm and fuzzy without having to say a hell of a lot. Life with a pinch...

We spend most of our early lives studying towards a vocation. A lot less time studying parenting. One mother I spoke to recently suggests m...

You have to love Australia's 'Winning Culture'. Meeting an Aussie last night and getting through the typical first question of...

This awesome clip of Messi  when he was 10 years old is fun to watch even for people who haven't got the football bug like me. His contr...

I am attempting to learn a few things at the moment. Some more from scratch than others. I did try learning the piano before (1998-2001) bu...

Stuart points to this article on Chinese Mothers. It is a rather hectic account of the differences between Western and Chinese parenting a...

The nature versus nurture debate is an old one. Though I am no expert, it seems logical to me that both play a big roll. A friend of mine wh...

Paul Bloom's 5th lecture in his course is on the development of thought , or 'what it is like to be a baby'. I am not going to ...

One of the more amusing blogs I read had a link to this From The New Yorker, "if adults were subject to the same indignities as childre...

Joshua Gans writes a blog on economics and parenting which is quite entertaining. ... Here though, he links to Alex Taborrok at Marginal Rev...