Interface KZN is an NGO that support people who have little or no functional speech. They provide training and do assessments for schools and families etc in rural areas.  They fundraise for AAC devices, assessments and teacher/facilitator training.  Find out more on http://www.interface-kzn.co.za “I watched on Saturday as a mother of a cerebral palsy child was told for [...]

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Yesterday’s post about resolutions was serious, but this post probably explains better why I won’t bother. Here’s a look at someone’s New Year’s resolutions down through the years. RESOLUTION #1: 2005: I will read at least 20 good books a year. 2006: I will read at least 10 books a year. 2007: I will read [...]

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I wrote a blog post last year about not making New Year’s resolutions that stirred up some debate, and this year, just because I know I can’t keep them, I decided not to do resolutions again.  As an aside, I assure you that I do have goals but the actual January 1st thing doesn’t happen [...]

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Would you ever attempt to start your car with the key from your front door?  And if by chance you accidentally tried, and then realised that you were using the wrong key, you wouldn’t try over and over to force the big, wide key into the small, thin ignition would you?  You would realise that [...]

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Joslyn is 10 years old.  She loves to cook and bake, which is a bonus because I am terrible at both.   This last weekend while she was experimenting with some new recipes, she demonstrated some behavior that made me pause. First she brought me samples of the goodies she had just baked.  Then after she determined [...]

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Goals are useless, unless you become the person who would achieve them. When I still worked in the volunteer arena, I heard a story of a minister of a large American church addressing a church board that wanted to grow their congregation even more.  He drew a quick graph showing their current numbers as well [...]

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By Charlotte Kemp I’m not too sure I was taken seriously when in the middle of a Humorous Approach to Debt Collecting course, I affirmed the ladies who had to track down young students who had defaulted on their varsity loans and sometimes issue judgments against them. We want to protect our children and we [...]

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By Charlotte Kemp In a recent Humorous Approach to Debt Collecting course, some of the delegates worked for a collection agency who had to trace students who had defaulted on university fees. We discussed various means that they used to try and find these former students, and then we thought of Facebook! Obviously being young [...]

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By Charlotte Kemp Don’t worry, until yesterday I didn’t know what that meant either.And to hear an audio pronunciation, click here to go to Merriam-Webster. Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of how psychological factors, the brain, emotional states, including humour, and the immune system all interact to influence health. With the amount of stress created by [...]

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By Charlotte Kemp Do you know what is a curious thing about humans in business?We want to earn money and presumably profits.We sell our products or services for a price that we have agonized over.But when it comes to sending out invoices, some people are really hesitant to get the job done. One man who [...]

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