Writing

After my youngest son, Zaan, died on the 8th of April 2008, I started writing to deal with my feelings. This has expanded into writing in general.

That book is coming… definitely someday…

The following articles have been published on the Parent24 website in order of publication.

1. Diagnosis: Down syndrome
2. What is Down syndrome?
3. Down syndrome myths
4. Special needs: you can do it!
5. Bushveld living
6. Giving up the career
7. Spitting Mad
8. Baby start up costs
9. The cost of a baby
10. Baby Zaan’s heart
11. Baby in hospital
12. Mom and Dad split up
13. A virus killed our baby
14. A deadly virus
15. Guilt over child’s death
16. A child’s grief
17. An upside to divorce?
18. Spring, friend or foe?
19. Drowning: the silent death
20. Drowning facts
21. How do you keep your child safe from drowning?
22. Baby hair care
23. Wonders of baby powder
24. What moms think of piercings
25. Tattoo your teen
26. Are modern moms hopeless?
27. Tweetalig van kleinsaf?
28. Gawe oom Gert van Rooyen
29. Leer ons kinders ’n baster Afrikaans?
30. What’s the point of Grade R?
31. Het ouerskap die antwoord tot evolusie?
32. Is 3 kinders een te veel?
33. Babas in die kroeg
34. My child won’t get head lice. Right?
35. My baby walks funny
36. Metatarsus Adductus (curved foot)
37. Tibial Torsion (twisted shin)
38. Femoral Anteversion (twisted thigh)
39. 4 steps to surviving potty training
40. Daddy paid for my career
41. Night terrors
42. Is your phone revealing too much?
43. Dumb TV, dumb children?
44. When depression spoils the dream