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Issue 163 • Durban • Dec 2018/Jan 2019

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Everyday Life

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Find festive greetings from our Editor, read about Kamel Potteries – your onestop pottery shop, meet the Cover Stars, read some silly season tips, Darren Maule’s take on tough parenting plus find holiday activities for kids and try our festive craft for both adults and kids.

Delicious Life

18-20

Find two delicious festive recipes this issue.

Home Life

20-23

Healthy Life

24-30

We have some great ideas for gifts, activities and games for a frugal festive season.

Learn about Skin Cancer Awareness Month, tips for good posture for moms and enter to WIN an amazing health & beauty hamper.

Beautiful Life

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Read about Skin Renewal’s latest makeover, learn how to detox daily, prepare your feet for summer and enter to WIN one of two SkinnyTan™ hampers plus try a DIY face mask.

Kids’ Life

Read about the latest Ben 10 gadgets and toys, enter to WIN a Hasbro game hamper, find out about the SoccerTech holiday camp and read more about FreshPac Lunchboxes’ new online store.

Educated Life

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Read our special Education Feature – find out how to teach your kids to learn the art of listening, the hidden value of a teaching qualification, find out how important play is for pre-schoolers, how to create a safe place for your children, learn how to support the Rally to Read project and find cool science experiments for kids.

Party Life

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Laidback Life

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Everyday Life

The Silly Season is Here!

And just like that it is already the end of the year and the Christmas festivities begin. Before we know it, 2018 will be behind us and the New Year will be in full swing. But before that, give yourself time to just breathe….

I hope that you have lots of fun planned over the holidays, celebrating with family and friends. That’s what I love about the Christmas holidays – most people have some time off work so you really do get to spend quality time with your loved ones. In my view, there should be much less emphasis on giving gifts and more about treasuring special friends and family and just enjoying being with them. The Mum’s Mail office closes for a few weeks on 12th December and we are all looking forward to a nice break, after

another VERY busy year! I want to just say a HUGE thank you to our advertisers that have supported us this year and made this little free magazine possible. Thanks also to all our readers for their wonderful feedback and letters that we receive all the time – please continue to support our advertisers where you can! With next year in our sights, we have already started to plan the 6th PMB Ladies Breakfast in association with The Sunflower Fund, which will be held in PMB in April 2019 - so watch this space for more info…! Have a wonderful December and January love, peace and joy to you and your family. Safe travels! Love Victoria and the Mum’s Mail Team xxx

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Kamel Potteries is a one-stop pottery shop Kamel Potteries also offers birthdays, for all your clays, paints and all your needs kitchen tea and in fact parties for all for this craft. occasions, where fun can be had making articles of your choice. They teach at Kamel Clay is the most amazing medium and is every Wednesday morning from 9am to one of the most enjoyable forms of art. 12pm. It is excellent for children with learning problems and helps improve fine motor Work made at home can be fired at Kamel. control. It builds up strength in both the They also teach the teachers - teachers fingers and the hands. It also enhances eye- needing help with school pottery lessons can hand co-ordination. contact them with a letter from the head of the school for free tuition. Kamel has a new Individual and unique platters can be made exotic showroom with individually finished from rolling the clay and adding your own ware. Each piece is made by a ceramic artist design. An important aspect of pottery and they are all unique. They can create is its 3D vision. This is ideal for children, your designs if you want a special piece for creating an all-round vision not achievable yourself. They supply designers, shops and on a flat piece of paper. Create a wonderful nurseries. They also supply bonsai pots. memory with each guest writing a message on a platter for a 21st or 90th birthday. For Contact: 031 579 1011, moms and children, they have an extensive kamel.durban@gmail.com, collection of bisque for presents for www.kamelpotteries.com, grannies, grandpas and teachers. 34 Ashfield Ave, Springfield Park, Durban.

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Cover Stars

Meet the Cover Stars

Our cover stars this month are Durban Yvonne and Martin spend a lot of their time North mom Yvonne Bright with her children, doing things together with their children Nicholas (16) and Sarah (14). - whether it’s watching each other doing sport, training, fishing or paddling and Yvonne is the owner and managing more. The Midmar Mile is a standard annual director of Vegmo Accessories, while family event in the Bright household. her husband, Martin, is a self-employed consulting engineer. Yvonne and Martin With all their busy schedules the family love Christmas and when Yvonne travels makes time to have at least two holidays overseas to source Christmas stock for away each year, usually on the coast where Vegmo, she always keeps family in mind there are lots of activities they can do and finds festive goodies that will please together. the whole family. “We love knowing that by simply living “Our entire family is very sporty and enjoys our lives with intention and truth, we can doing a variety of different sports. Nicholas teach our children valuable lessons in love, is an avid hockey player and is going on empowerment, compassion and humanity,” tour next year to Malaysia and Singapore. explains Yvonne. He also enjoys water polo, swimming and tennis,” says Yvonne. “Sarah lives for her “Enjoy every phase of life your child is in, hockey and has represented KZN in both whether they are 3 or 13. The years go by so hockey and touch rugby. Tennis, soccer, fast, so relax and enjoy a wonderful festive swimming and running keep her busy when season with your family and create special she has spare time!” memories!

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Everyday Life

Silly Season Tips

Silly season has arrived in genuine SA style - hot as all heck! In the hopes of some youthful pearls of wisdom on the silliness of the season, I reveal my column topic to the household teen. Between giant bites of chicken roti and gulps of orange squash he asks what the silly season is. (Err... What exactly do they teach in schools these days?) Without listening for the answer, his worthy advice is to lay off the drugs. “Silly Season,” I interrupt, “is the period leading up to Christmas when folks wind down for the year and start partying and buying...”

which may require assembly. Actually, my top tip is to scrap stressful shopping altogether. Rather scrape together the dough to go somewhere meaningful. Give yourselves a break and spend a day or two communing as a family. For the first time ever in 2017, I did not cook and clean like a woman possessed, rearrange furniture and decor, or swear under my breath at the slackers avoiding enlistment to help perform said tasks. Instead, we escaped reality.

“Ok, he quips through a last mouthful of The boys chortled like Santa in his sleigh as roti, “Don’t lay off the drugs then...” they manoeuvred a golf cart at alarming speed from one hole to the next, hacking I see he’s not going to be much help. their way cluelessly around the golf So from my own meagre arsenal of Silly course, whilst I contemplated my blessings Season tips then... social media is probably alongside a tranquil river. best avoided at this time of year. An old chestnut, you may think, but anyone who’s Later, we savoured a hotel-cooked lunch anyone is sure to have begun posting and one another’s presence, pulling pictures of their Yuletide handiwork, crackers that someone else had bought and and in 35°C weather, who really feels like making memories to soften the sting of a schlepping a massive tree from the garage, rough year. untangling a plethora of hastily-stored lights, or being poked in the eye by an errant Here’s hoping you too will be able to unlearn the art of being a control freak this silly branch? season and instead make special memories Personally, I sing the praises of minimalism: you’ll want to unwrap in the future. a branch, a vase, hand-beaded stars, et Written by Janine Magree. voila, you’ve helped a bloke feed his family, avoided contributing to the world’s growing landfills and painlessly erected a “tree” in under 5 minutes. Come New Year, just chuck the branch on the braai and you never have to worry about storage. As for buying gifts; our droll teen might once have been appeased with a sackful of cheap bow-and-arrows and the like, but these days, the celebration of Christ’s birth has less of the makings of a fairy tale and is more like being on the set of Jerry Maguire... “Show me the money!” Not a keen shopper, this suits me just fine, but if you still have littlies, a top shopping tip is to avoid all pressies with foreign instructions www.mumsmail.com

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Everyday Life

Because I Said So… I have tried, at least for the 10 years that I have been a single parent, to never, ever, use the excuse “because I said so” when telling my Mouse what to do or what not to do. “Because I said so” is a cop-out, I think, and it causes some resentment within a child if my childhood is anything to go by. When asking my parents for something I wanted or something I wanted to do as a child and they said no, I would ask why. At times they would say “because I said so”. It was so unsatisfying and could foster resentment. I remember thinking to myself “why are there two sets of rules?”. It’s the same as: “do as I say and not as I do”. Which is another way of explaining totalitarianism or authoritarianism, and that’s not a way to bring up a child in my mind. For me, open conversation about all things, even the uncomfortable conversations - remember that Dad and Mouse had the birds and the bees talk when she was nine - is very important.

We eventually made a compromise and have WhatsApp groups, but we also have the rule that Dad - until she is sixteen years old - has full access to her phone and to her computer. These are the rules as agreed to. Because it’s my job to protect her. Which was also in answer as to why she couldn’t have a YouTube channel. (Believe it or not there are ten-year-old children out there that have their own YouTube channel!). I’ve explained that it’s the same as social media, where some people out there are predators looking for young and impressionable people. Even though she might think she knows better, online predators are very good at what they do and can make life difficult not only for her, but her family too. Monsters are people and they live online.

“But why?” is often the next question, “soand-so has a YouTube channel” or “there’s a nine-year-old who has their own channel” and my response is that I am not THEIR parent. I don’t know where they are going to be in their lives in the next five to ten years. I am YOUR parent, and my number This strategy can be really hard for people one priority is the protection of YOU. Part of who have more than one or two kids, that is to not allow other people unlimited because you don’t always have the time to access to you. sit down and explain why it is that you do or don’t want your child to do something. I’m sure that as technology evolves and she But if you are the parent of only one child gets a little bit older, a few of her friends are (or maybe two) it’s always best to take the going to be on one or other platform. So opportunity to sit down and explain why long as we’re having the conversation - not you don’t want to do something and to only with each other but also with other explain your rationale. Ultimately it comes parents - about what the fears and concerns down to time management, which has also are, I think that’s the best way to go. been one of my biggest priorities as a single parent. I don’t think that ever saying to a child “because I said so” has ever been The older they get, the more they want to successful and has ever cultivated a trusting do stuff. Mouse asks me why she can’t be relationship between parent and child. on social media (not just the evil trifactor of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram), and The imperative here is to make time. I’ve explained that it’s because it attracts Always make sure that you schedule time, predators and she is too young and might just to talk; about what you’re feeling or not understand the repercussions of things what you’re thinking. she might do at this stage, so she needs to be a little bit older. By Darren Maule. www.mumsmail.com

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Holiday Activities for Kids

While going out to places during the holidays is great fun, it can get very expensive during the long summer break. Here is a fun activity to try at home that won’t cost a cent. You could try this in the pool, at the beach, or in a river or pond. Explore with an underwater viewer Paddling in rock pools or a shallow sea is far more interesting if you can see below the surface. If you don’t have goggles and a snorkel, why not create your own underwater viewer instead? Take an empty two-litre plastic soda bottle and remove the lid so you can squeeze it flat, then use a pair of craft scissors to cut a slit about 10cm from the bottom. Now re-inflate the bottle, replace the lid and use your scissors to cut from that slit to form a rectangular opening about 20cm up the bottle and 10cm along the top and bottom. You can rub down the edge with sandpaper to smooth it or simply put duct tape around

all the edges to cover any sharp bits. Hold the bottle sideways and submerge the bottom section in the water. You can then look through the hole to see the wonders below. As always, when you are near water, take a grown-up with you.

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Delicious Life

Christmas Fruit Squares

These tasty fruit squares are perfect over the festive season. Cut them quite small when you make them and keep in a Tupperware in the fridge – enjoy at tea time! It makes about 30.

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German Black Forest Cake

Ingredients • 1 cup whole milk • 3 large eggs • 1/2 cup canola oil • 3 teaspoons vanilla extract • 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour • 2 cups sugar • 3/4 cup baking cocoa • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda • 3/4 teaspoon salt Filling: • 2 cans pitted tart cherries • 1 cup sugar • 1/4 cup cornstarch • 3 tablespoons cherry brandy or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Whipped cream: • 3 cups heavy whipping cream • 1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar Directions: • Preheat oven to 180°. Line bottoms of two greased 9-inch round baking pans; grease paper. • In a large bowl, beat milk, eggs, oil and vanilla until well blended. In another bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into milk mixture. • Transfer to prepared pans. Bake 30-35 minutes

or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove paper. Cool completely. • Meanwhile, for filling, drain cherries, reserving 1/2 cup juice. In a small saucepan, whisk sugar, cornstarch and reserved juice; add cherries. Cook and stir over low heat 10-12 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat; stir in brandy. Cool completely. • In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add confectioners’ sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. • Using a long serrated knife, cut each cake horizontally in half. Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Top with 1-1/2 cups whipped cream. Spread 3/4 cup filling to within 1 in. of edge. Repeat twice. Top with remaining cake layer. Frost top and sides of cake with remaining whipped cream, reserving some to pipe decorations, if desired. Spoon remaining filling onto top of cake. Refrigerate until serving. Source: www.tasteofhome.com.

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Home Life

Frugal Christmas Gifts, Activities and Games

It’s almost time to enjoy Christmas in all its festive glory. And, mums know all too well that Christmas expenses for so-called ‘giving gestures’ or activities can surely put tremendous pressure on the December budget. It is, therefore, time to rather go back to simplicity and frugality when it comes to silly season activities and gifts.

are things like: buying affordable tea towels and personalising it, putting together a Christmas Survival DIY kit (making play dough and adding a few affordable cookie cutters).

One last thing regarding gifts - mums can also consider using brown paper as wrapping paper. It is just an environmentally Carla Oberholzer, debt adviser at DebtSafe, friendly way to help Mother Nature and to says: “It is important to continually keep also keep the budget intact. in mind that Christmas is actually a time of ‘peaceful giving’ while spending quality When it comes to games, mums can time with family and friends. There is encourage games/sports that the family no need to let that blood pressure and loves. financial situation rise. This will only make mums anxious and escalate their money What about Family Game Night - where each household brings the boardgames situation to a dreadful debt pile.” they really enjoy? There is no need to go Thrifty activities, games and gift ideas can and buy an expensive game; there must be encourage mums to rather stay away from quite the collection if everybody brings two expensive last-minute buys this festive or three along. season and can get some doesn’t-costan-arm-and-a-leg creativity going in the Other outdoor games to consider (if the weather is sunny of course) include Touch process. Rugby, Hide-and-Seek (gift hunting perhaps) When it comes to frugal presents and and Lawn Bowls – ideal for young and old. activities – ideas are endless. Mums should consider activities they know the gang will Christmas is around the corner and mums enjoy, and it is always advisable that mums do not have to go to extreme financial should work with what they have available. strains to prepare gifts or keep family and friends entertained this festive season. They can consider partnering with friends or Creativity and frugality are the key elements family members and have a crafts evening to a special, affordable Christmastime this sometime during December. Each adult year. or child can bring the arts and craft items they have and make personalised gifts like bath bombs, coasters, jewellery or cookie ingredient jars. Or, what about getting family members’ shoe sizes and buy each person an affordable pair of slippers? Mums (together with their friends/family members) can share costs and make treat-filled slippers that won’t break the bank. Visit www.debtsafe.co.za for more info.

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Summer is here which means you will be wearing sandals more often. If your feet could do with a makeover, here are some DIY treatments you can do at home to un-ugly your feet! Try this foot soak, followed by the foot scrub – don’t forget to moisturise with a good foot cream afterwards, and wear socks to keep the moisture in overnight. Do this regularly to keep your feet looking beautiful and healthy all summer long!

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Eating a well-balanced, nutrition-rich diet consistently and pursuing a healthy lifestyle will eliminate the need to detox or purge after the holidays, according to a leading nutritional expert. Vanessa Ascencao says consistent healthy eating will also lead to weight loss which will in turn help counter diabetes, heart disease and various other illnesses. Ascencao said various studies show that healthy eating and resultant natural weight loss may reverse or lower diabetes and counter heart disease. Research also shows that consistent weight loss from healthy eating is far better than fluctuating weight loss from fad, detox or crash diets. Try Ascencao’s steps to healthy living: • Develop a nutritious eating plan focused on natural, whole food, including lots of vegetables (especially greens), fruit and some lean protein. • Avoid sugar, alcohol, and coffee, refined and processed foods. These contribute to inflammation, diabetes and disease. Cutting them out will lead to natural weight loss and a stronger immune system. • Try to eliminate dairy. Humans don’t have the enzymes to digest the lactose (a sugar present in milk). Dairy also promotes the formation of mucous and acid to which most of us are allergic or intolerant • Sweat more, daily. Try yoga, brisk walking, cycling or swimming. • Stay hydrated and ditch fizzy drinks which sap B vitamins. Drink lots of filtered water. • Chew food well and eat slowly. This extracts nutrients better and counters overeating. • Choose best quality supplements. • Take probiotics for gut health and try bitter greens such as dandelion, milk thistle and parsley to assist the kidneys, colon and liver in detoxification.• Choose organic produce and eco-friendly hygiene and cleaning products to eliminate chemicals.

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Welcome to the Mum’s Mail Education Special Feature that runs over the beginning of each year from January to March. This is the third consecutive year that we are running this feature and it has proved to be very popular. This is an important time of the year for anything connected with children’s education and we pack our feature with good advice and practical suggestions for parents.

But sometimes other forces can make it appear that gravity is not working. This is a magic trick where you will make macaroni defy gravity and jump up!

If you’re a parent, you will know this struggle well – the art of listening! If you had to ask your child to brainstorm ‘how to listen’ what would he say? Or more importantly what would YOU say? Listening is in fact not as simple as you think. It is a complex Throughout this feature we take a look at a and intricate skill that needs to be taught to an individual and practiced. Little Genius variety of subjects including: shares their four secrets to listening - the The importance of play in pre-school age sooner your child can master these skills the children - in our ever-changing world, better. academic success appears to be the most important part of a child’s development. Dr Naresh Veeran from the Embury Institute With increased pressure on children, the for Higher Education shares the hidden focus is being taken away from free and value of a teaching qualification and what meaningful play and placed more on qualities make teachers such good leaders. achieving academic goals. Although parents A teaching qualification, although geared may think that they are doing what is best towards a respected and value-driven for their child’s academic development, profession, opens many other doors as the research has shown that it is in fact through skills learned are easily transferable across play that children develop the most sectors. Most importantly, the hidden value important skills that they take with them of a teaching qualification is the way in which it creates leaders who then go on to through life. shape other leaders. Toni Wilkins, Registered Social Worker and Member of SAASWIPP, offers some useful We hope you find the articles in this special advice on how to create a safe place for our feature interesting and informative and we children. Life can be stressful, fast paced and would love to hear from you with feedback busy. Our children pick up on this and still and suggestions for future editions. Please have to go to school daily and are expected email comments to editor@mumsmail. to give 100% and perform optimally. com. Statistics and professionals working with children have indicated that there is a marked increase in children suffering with anxiety, depression and anger issues and even having suicidal thoughts. It is so important that we as parents, grandparents and caregivers create an environment that enables our children to talk openly and honestly about the issues that may be troubling them. Get your children thinking and learning with a fun science experiment. The law of gravity states that what comes up will come down. www.mumsmail.com

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The Art of Listening If you had to ask your child to brainstorm ‘how to listen’ - what would he say? Or more importantly, what would YOU say? Listening is in fact not as simple as you think. It is a complex and intricate skill that needs to be taught to an individual and practised.

4. Doodle/note taking The definition of doodle is to ‘scribble absent-mindedly’. If your child can learn to scribble ‘present-mindedly’ in the classroom from an early age, it will result in genius. Your child will need a deep and thorough understanding of how to extract CRITICAL information only.

Four secrets to listening The sooner your child can master these skills the better. Does your child know that NOT all information is IMPORTANT? Does he 1. Stop know how to discern what information is Whenever your child hears a voice directed important and what information is not? at him, he needs to STOP. Stop talking. Stop picking his nose. Stop hitting his brother. Critical vs non-critical information Stop playing. This is not as simple as it You need to first pose the following question sounds, especially in our day where one is to your child; ‘Do you think everything you so technologically consumed. You will need hear is important?’ If he says yes, then you to practice this seemingly simple action at need to explain to him that if he had to home, over and over again, until it has been listen to everything his poor brain would mastered. explode. It is important to explain to your child that only some information is critical. 2. Look Many kids aged around 7 and 8 have no Once he has mastered the art of freezing, idea what information is critical and what he needs to LOOK. Look at the owner of the information is non-critical. voice. A person who lip reads can ‘listen’ purely by studying lip movement. Looking At home, you could play a game and present will also help the individual gauge the your child with different sets of information emotion of the speaker. and ask him if he thinks it is critical or noncritical. 3. Think E.g. Mum went to the flower shop this Once having STOPPED, LOOKED and studied morning and brought a rose bush (this is the speaker’s lips, they must use their grey non-critical. It is kind to listen but it won’t matter. They need to first process what has make a difference if he heard it or not). been uttered. Secondly they need to decide Your friend gives you directions to his house what words in the information are critical (this is obviously very critical. If you did not and thirdly they need to take action. listen you would get lost). Dad has an itchy bum (kids love toilet humour so the odd one like this would keep a potentially boring game interesting). You also need to ask yourself are you sifting through the critical and non-critical information that is thrown at you. If you are stressed and overwhelmed, then you are probably not. By Kath Denholm, Little Genius, kath@geniusseries.com. www.mumsmail.com

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The Hidden Value of a Teaching Qualification

entrepreneurs with the core thinking skills requisite for careers that have yet to be Integrity In his online discussions around invented. successful leadership, Schwantes quotes Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of ‘Dedication’, then, is the pivot on which the Berkshire Hathaway, who states that all of his career decision to become a teacher swings most successful hiring decisions were based and is the key value driver that sustains on values, the most important of which was teachers throughout their lives, even when ‘integrity’. “Integrity is what makes it hard they opt to change professions. to question a person’s decisions. His or her actions are open for everyone to see and Caring There’s probably no more than a you can rest assured that he or she will use handful of professions that train for ‘caring’. Much like their counterparts in the health good judgement”. profession and, of course, across most In tight, collaborative spaces, colleagues service-oriented industries, teachers are of such hires will quickly see them as trained to carry-out their daily tasks with dependable and accountable for their care as a natural and organic part of service actions, which is a laser path to developing delivery. team trust. The Post-Matric Study Decision Students Integrity is also the key value driver in have more options than ever before. A teacher education programmes the world teaching qualification, although geared towards a respected and value-driven over. profession, opens many other doors as the Dedication If there’s one descriptor skills learned are easily transferable across that epitomises the lay perception of a sectors. In fact, many teaching graduates teacher, it would have to be ‘dedication’. go on to successful careers in both the Teaching in South Africa requires study entrepreneurial and corporate spaces. over four years towards a qualification like Some choose to position themselves in a Bachelor of Education degree. The degree corporate training, communications and also incorporates months and months of skills development project work, while integrated training in live classrooms where others choose to use their youth travelling students perfect their craft long before and to use their teaching qualification much they’re given carte blanche to manage a like an international visa to secure shortclassroom of some 30-strong 10-year-olds. term work during their journey. What makes teachers such good leaders?

Teachers then spend hours and hours each evening preparing for the next day’s lessons, marking homework from the previous day’s efforts and still finding time to spend with their own priorities and loved ones.

Most importantly, the hidden value of a teaching qualification is the way in which it creates leaders who then go on to shape other leaders.

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Science Experiments: Circular Diffusion

Jumping Macaroni

Science Question: What is Diffusion? When molecules move from a place where there are lots of molecules and spread out to a much larger space where there are fewer molecules, that’s called diffusion.

Science Question: Can you defy gravity? The law of gravity states that what comes up will come down. But sometimes other forces can make it appear that gravity is not working. This is a magic trick where you will make macaroni defy gravity and jump up.

Supplies: • 2 Cups water • Microwave safe bowl • 3 Packages of gelatin • Spoon • Cookie sheet • Straw • Food colouring The experiment: Pour the water into a microwave safe bowl and have a parent microwave it until the water is boiling, and then carefully remove the bowl with oven mitts. Pour all 3 packages of gelatin. Stir with a spoon until dissolved. Pour your mixture onto a cookie sheet and let it harden overnight. Take your straw and poke holes in the gelatin mixture about 3 inches (7.5cm) apart. Drop 2 or 3 drops of food colouring into each hole and let it sit for 2 to 3 hours.

Supplies needed: • 3 Boxes dried tube-shaped pasta noodles • Large spool of thin ribbon • Bowl The experiment: Slide macaroni onto the ribbon, making a long pasta ‘snake’ in the bowl. You want it to be at least 5m long, or longer. After you have the string filled with noodles, hold the bowl at about chest height and toss a few inches of macaroni-covered ribbon out of the bowl. The outcome: Your macaroni begins to flow out of the bowl onto the floor, but if you look closely it jumps up several inches out of the bowl before it falls.

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In our ever-changing world, academic success appears to be the most important part of a child’s development. With increased pressure on children, the focus is being taken away from free and meaningful play and placed more on achieving academic goals. Although parents may think that they are doing what is best for their child’s academic development, research has shown that it is in fact through play that children develop the most important skills that they take with them through life.

Allow your child the freedom to get messy, to be creative and imaginative, and explore the world around them. This must be done in an unstructured child-led manner. Here are some ideas for exciting sensory play: • Jump in muddy puddles • Finger paint • Play with boxes • Make blanket tents • Shaving cream fun • Make a mud kitchen • Create art - cutting, sticking, sprinkling glitter or sand • Explore the garden • Run, skip, hop and climb - encourage any movement

The preschool years are when children need to experience a range of sensory experiences on a daily basis. The outdoors is an environment where their senses are fully awakened and the variety of activities and whole body experiences are optimised Do not do anything for your child that they in this environment to develop the child as can do for themselves. Allow your child to a whole. enjoy their childhood. They will learn far more skills than you can imagine, just by Play is the basis for igniting the love of playing. learning. It is through play that children learn important life skills. These include: • Social skills like sharing, turn taking and negotiating • Motor skills, such as running, jumping, climbing and balancing • Developing self-esteem through perseverance and achieving goals • Creative thinking and problem solving skills • Independence These should all be achieved through whole body, natural, unstructured movement and meaningful sensory play. If children are denied these opportunities there is greater risk for them to experience difficulties in their later academic years. These difficulties may present themselves as poor concentration, emotional immaturity, poor problem solving and trouble socialising. Research has shown that there is an increase in sensory, motor and cognitive issues in later childhood and this has been linked to the decrease in free unstructured play in the pre-primary years. www.mumsmail.com

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In a beautiful country with a rugged landscape, the stark reality is that the journey to equality and education for all is equally rough, where poor literacy levels still abound, 24 years into democracy. In as much as all eyes are on our education system, the real remedy lies in a concerted, collective effort by all facets in society to pull together and contribute to the goal: literacy for all South Africans.

Life can be stressful, fast paced and busy. Our children pick up on this and still have to go to school daily and are expected to give 100% and perform optimally. Statistics and professionals working with children have indicated that there is a marked increase in children suffering with anxiety, depression and anger issues and even having suicidal thoughts. It is so important that we as parents, grandparents and caregivers create an environment that enables our For the past two decades, Rally to Read has children to talk openly and honestly about quietly ploughed forward, making inroads the issues that may be troubling them. by actively furthering literacy in rural South Africa. Rally to Read delivers educational How can we do this? materials and provides teacher training • Spend quality time with your child, with to specifically identified rural schools that no cell phone, television or computer on frequently tend to ‘fall through the cracks’ hand. of already-stretched provincial education • Maintain eye contact and show an budgets. In these schools, things the rest interest. of us take for granted … books, pens, desks • Play is the way children explore and often … are absent. Imagine how hard it is for express their feelings so sit on the floor, go educators to inspire, educate and promote into the garden and allow your child to lead literacy without the basics? Responsible the way and just follow their play. You may businesses and concerned private individuals learn a lot about your child and their world! contribute to the Rally to Read budget • Do not belittle or dismiss your child’s every year. This money pays for stationery, feelings, struggles or beliefs. books, portable classroom libraries, and • Demonstrate unconditional love and teacher training. Schools identified for the acceptance. Rally to Read Programme are visited three • Do not compare your child with another. years in a row. Educationalists believe • Accept your child for who they are this is the minimum period required to unique, special and irreplaceable. achieve sustainable results. Over the past • Cherish the limited time you have to sow 20 years, independent studies have shown in to your child’s life. remarkable improvements in reading and writing skills at Rally to Read schools. If your child is really struggling, seek professional input to enable them to get Educator training and school progress are the help that is needed. Nothing is able carefully monitored by READ Educational to take the place of a healthy parent-child Trust, who has managed the programme relationship, where the child feels loved from the outset. Provincial education and accepted and able to openly talk about departments wholeheartedly endorse Rally their unique struggles. to Read, as does our government at national level. Is that not what we all desire and look for? To get involved, visit www.rallytoread.co.za, or contact Lizelle on 087 237 7781. www.mumsmail.com

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Diary Dates DECEMBER & JANUARY AWARENESS DAYS • Prevention of Injuries Month • 1 Dec – 31 Jan: SunSmart Skin Cancer Awareness Month (1 December to 31 January) • 1 Dec: World AIDS Day • 3 Dec: International Day of Persons with Disabilities • 5 Dec: International Volunteer Day • 9 Dec: World Patient Safety Day • 10 Dec: International Human Rights Day • 12 Dec: Universal Health Coverage Day • 1 Jan: Global Family Day • 4 Jan: World Braille Day • 27 Jan: International Holocaust Day• 31 Jan: World Leprosy Day. ARTS & CULTURE • 4 Dec (1st Tues monthly), 9am, LA LUCIA CAKE DECORATORS’ GUILD, La Lucia Library, visitors welcome, cost R20, Bharathi, 082 488 8927. • 8 Dec, 12 Jan (2nd Sat monthly), 9am, NORTH COAST ARTISTS DEMO & MEETING, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Glenashley, visitors R40, members R30, www.north-coast-artists.com. BUSINESS NETWORKING • 6 Dec (1st Thurs monthly), 8am – 10.30am, KZN WOMEN IN BUSINESS YEAR END FUNCTION, Garden Court, Marine Parade, Durban, R220 members, R240 non-members, 031 – 266 2892, info@kznwib.co.za, www.kznwib.co.za. CHARITY • 1 Dec – 31 Jan (Tues - Fri), 8am – 3pm, DONATION STATION CHARITY SHOP, 20 Clarence Road, Greyville, 031 - 312 9313. • 8 Dec, 9am – 12pm, HOPE MARKET – BUY & UPLIFT, Grace Family Church Umhlanga Campus, dimitra@ grace.org.za. COOKING • 1 Dec – 31 Jan, FOOD FUN: WHAT’S COOKING WITH AUNTY SANDRA? – BIG & LITTLE VARIOUS HEALTHY COOKING CLASSES, Holiday classes also offered, Westville, booking essential: helloauntysandra@ gmail.com. • 1 Dec – 31 Jan, VARIOUS COOKING CLASSES, Gecko Culinary Adventures, 88 Lagoon Drive, Umhlanga Rocks, Durban cooking@geckoschool.co.za • 1 Dec – 31 Jan, VARIOUS DOMESTIC WORKERS COOKING CLASSES, R1 600pp (5 weeks), danielle@ pheka.co.za, www.pheka.co.za, 072 261 5192. • 1 Dec – 31 Jan, VARIETY OF COOKING CLASSES, Cooking Cooks, 90 Dawncliffe Rd, Westville, info@ cookingcooks.co.za, 031 – 266 8488, 082 543 0543, www.cookingcooks.co.za. • 1 – 21 Dec & 1 – 11 Jan (every day except Sundays), HOLIDAY CLUB: TOTS & POTS COOKING CLASSES FOR CHILDREN, Mnt Edgecombe, holiday classes also offered, booking essential: Sholaine: 084 457 7606 / Charlotte: 072 6288 642.

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