I've been reading up a lot on healthy eating and thought my kids ate pretty well. It wasn't until a conversation with a friend and my sister over the weekend that I realized how terribly I have been allowing my kids to eat. Even though we have a veggie patch and I teach them the importance of eating well at school I don't practice those philosophies at home. Truthfully they eat only processed foods and mainly directly from our freezer. Fruit and veggies from tins and tons of

Due to my eldest son’s asthma I kept him home and began homeschooling him. In the process I discovered he was different. He had a gift for language and had an extensive vocabulary, an understanding of mathematics and science from a very young age. He had an interest in topics far beyond his age or that of his peers. It was only once I started sending him to play groups on his own that I noticed a real difference between him and other children. He reached all of his milestones