For goodness sakes, have you seen some of the children’s playgrounds these days? Everything is built so safe that there is no place for...

My father asked me to meet him at a Korean Grocery Store many years ago. When I met him, he was talking to a lady who makes kimchi in the...

Why do parents try to shield their children from hurts? The whole society seems to be held hostage to people who feel children need to be...

There seems to be a constant discussion about sex-education in schools in the media. I suppose it is important that children should be...

My daughter came home furious one day. When I asked her why, she told me that a boy at school hit her during the lunch hour in the...

I remember expecting my first child shortly and my mother giving me the “talk”. The gist of what she said was: Women have been having...

I was a young Korean mother married to a French man when interracial marriage was not as common as it is now. My children, especially...

I remember being on holiday with my three young children years ago. A young couple approached me and the husband asked me an interesting...

We often forget that teachers are people just like everyone else. It can be a very rewarding job, but it can also be a very tough job.

As a teacher of young teenagers, I am constantly faced with students who feel that they are “dumb” or “not good enough” so they won’t...

We were invited to a dinner hosted by a former French ambassador to the Vatican. There were about 20 people at the dinner table, all...