Today my nephew came home, with two red gashes on his face! Apparently he had bumped (accidentally he says) into another boy earlier. Then while my nephew was in conversation with a friend, this other boy came up, pulled my nephew's cheek and scratched him.

A 2007 UK study on primary education concluded that children face "excessive" pressure today. Conducted by Cambridge University, the Primary Review was the biggest such independent study in the past 40 years.

Crude/obscene language is not uncommon to be heard among adults.

I continue to be surprised at what I come across, about the "new" aspects of the English language (new at least to me!).

I just love to read! But as I grow older, my eyes begin to let me down! My focusing distance has now gotten farther and farther away, a condition we commonly call "old" sight, otherwise known as long sightedness (medical terms: hypermetropia or hyperopia).

Recently I came to know of someone who visited a movie file-sharing site. He was trying to see if he could get episodes of the latest season of a TV show that is no longer playing here.

Most of us know that rich carbohydrates and little exercise is the reason why this is happening. If your child is considered overweight by your family doctor, it is time you acted.

Do you spare the rod in bringing up your child? Perhaps you believe in the positive (read softer) approach.

At what age should a child be given a mobile phone? Increasingly, children seen with one are getting younger.

Today I read in Mind Your Body (the ST Thursday supplement) that exercise alone does not prevent heart disease. It must go hand in hand with eating right. That's obvious, one might say! However, I do come across people who think otherwise.