by liliane_grace | Oct 10, 2018 | Youth
I was stunned and deeply troubled recently to hear about a friend’s financial circumstances. From beginning married life with a $10,000 mortgage some twenty years ago, today she and her husband are burdened by a mortgage in the hundreds of thousands for the same...
by liliane_grace | Sep 11, 2018 | Youth
It’s great to see so many schools proclaiming their values via big colourful posters around the campus on subjects to do with kindness and fairness and honesty and tolerance, and I have no doubt that teachers and principals repeatedly emphasise these values when they...
by liliane_grace | May 5, 2015 | Youth
‘Riches, my boy, don’t consist in having things but in not having to do something you don’t want to do, and don’t you forget it. Riches is being able to thumb your nose.’ – Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey I was at a business...
by liliane_grace | May 17, 2013 | Youth
Mother’s Day last Sunday reminded me of an article I wrote years ago about my children and the antics they were getting up to. As my youngest have just turned 18, I’m entering a whole new era now. I was a very focused mother – we home-educated as...
by liliane_grace | Jul 4, 2011 | Youth
Last week I went shopping with my 16 year old twin daughters to buy new shoes for their respective hobbies: ballet pointe shoes for one daughter and soccer boots for the other. I rather loved that outing because it was such a confirmation of our trust in our kids....
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