In 2013, while homeschooling my daughters, I met two orphans at a local township. Through a process, the boys were placed in the Khayalethu Boys home in Port Elizabeth. When we first met, they were totally illiterate and I home schooled them with my daughter for two years. They were bright and willing to learn. …
I will follow in my footsteps before they have been made
I still remember sitting in the Nelson Mandela University Indoor Stadium at the opening ceremony of my first robotics competition. It was 2013. Next to me, my daughters, whom I was homeschooling, sat. They were 7, 9 and 10 at the time. As the speaker for the ceremony shared insights into the future of employment …
Being a mom of three children has taught me a great deal about motivation. In binary terms: “Mom can motivate a child” would be TRUE. There is the promise of reward, threat of punishment or the (bad parent) bribe. But “Mom can motivate a teenager,” seems to compile to FALSE. By the time my children …