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The Wisdom of A Child 2 years 10 weeks ago

This reminded me of an old Jewish proverb - when given a choice between two paths, choose the third.

The amazing wisdom of a child

Recently, my wife asked my 5-years old daughter, Gracie, who she likes. Is it my brother-in-law or my sister-in-law? Now, Gracie don't see them often as they live in China. So she takes a while to warm up to them whenever she visits them in China. During one of the visits, my wife asked this question. Initially, Gracie declined to answer. Quite a diplomat, she is. When pressed for an answer, Gracie, replied that she likes her cousin.

The Only Word in English. 4 years 15 weeks ago

There is only one word in English that is always pronounced incorrectly. Do you know what is it?

Actually this is a brain teaser question that was asked to me a few months ago. It just suddenly came out again in my mind and I decided to discuss this to you.

I also asked this question to some of my friends and out of 40, only 2 of my friends got it. They gave a lot of funny answers and when I told them the correct answer, they couldn’t believe that they did not get it. To tell you frankly, I also did not get the correct answer when this question was asked to me.

Life After Death 4 years 14 weeks ago

This question has been asked many times by many people around the world, and it is a question that no one can't truly answer it. I mean, how can someone know for sure if there is really life after death? You would have to undergo through the experience to actually prove it.

Perception of happiness 2 years 47 weeks ago

A few days ago a new question came to my mind, and I've been looking for the answer ever since.

This question was:

Why do I feel so unhappy?

I decided that the answer to this question was somewhere within myself. It took a lot of soul searching and probing my own mind to come up with an answer. As always, I also searched for an answer on the web. It's amazing what we can learn here.

I had to ask myself what the source of my unhappiness is. Several things came to mind.

why why is an important learning tool. 4 years 11 weeks ago

Why is the sky blue? Why is this called a carrot? Why? Why? Why? As parents of young children, this constantly-asked question amused us, confused us, and at some point irritated us to no end. Perhaps, because we did not take the time to rationally look at what that question meant in terms of our child’s intellectual growth.