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Dr. Stuart Crisp FRCPCH FRACP is consultant paediatrician, a the Orange Base Hospital, in Orange, Australia. In addition to his duties at Orange Base Hospital, Dr. Crisp writes for the “NetDoctor” at: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/
We are trying to give their parents a brief respite from the unrelenting onslaught of nearly two weeks of flu, now infecting the entire family – hacking cough, achy body, fever, nausea, headache, congestion, respiratory difficulty, sleepless nights.
My five-year-old grand-daughter is learning to print. She has been making little notes about whatever is on her mind and presenting them to her parents.
How do you speak to children about Remembrance Day? What message might be beneficial to little people on this difficult day? How might that message be effectively communicated?
Yesterday we baptized three infants in the community I serve.
Twenty-plus years ago, the mothers of these three children were all baptized as babies in the same place. Grandma has been a faithful member of our church community for all the years between her daughters’ and her grand-children’s baptisms.
In the twenty or so intervening years, much has changed in the world and in the church.
http://blogs.timescolonist.com/2012/10/22/what-makes-a-child/
I am sitting in the back of a large church. There are three sections of fifteen rows of pews in front of me filled with 500 children between the ages of five and twelve.
It is difficult to know how to encourage children to open to the deeper significance of the Christmas season. Gifts, feasts, decorations, and elaborate celebrations are so compelling.
Dear Isabelle,
Yesterday we celebrated your first birthday. It was such a happy time for us to think back to your arrival among us on August 31, 2009. You have brought so much life and vitality to us. We are so grateful for you and your lovely family.
When I think about you at one year old, the thing that stands out most is the smile that lights up your face so often. You smile all the time. You seem like that happiest little person on earth.
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Dear Sophianna,
Today you are three years old. It is almost impossible to imagine that three years ago we did not know you. We had no idea what an extraordinary person was about to enter our lives. Since then you have come to occupy such a big place in our world. You have discovered and learned so much in the first three years of your life.
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Archbishop Imagines A Future For Children
June 13, 2012 in Current Comment | Tags: Children, Environment, Rio+20, Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury | 1 comment
He has been the brunt of so much harsh criticism. It is refreshing to be reminded in his own words of the vision and light of which the soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is capable.
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