“Rotes Licht und Grün, das kann doch jeder leicht verstehn. Bei Rot halt an und rühr dich nicht, bei Grün, da darfst du gehn!” Ich habe vor kurzem damit angefangen, unsere Kleine auf die rote bzw. grüne Ampel aufmerksam zu machen, wenn wir über die Straße gehen, und da kommt mir immer sofort das Lied […]
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Do you know the difference between German and French fire-fighters? The German ones drive a big red truck with a blue light and a siren that goes “tatütata”, as any German child will tell you. The French ones drive a big red truck with a blue light and a siren that goes “pim-pom-pim-pom”, as any […]
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It is a special moment when your child first says her name. I still remember the midwife in the hospital telling me to call her by her name often so she would understand that it meant her. She was less than a day old then. And now she’s 18 months and two weeks, and she […]
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A friend, mother of four, told me just the other day that “every day she may surprise you with something new”. And so she did. I was on the phone with my mother today, with the loudspeaker on so my girl would hear her granny, and when we’d finished my mother said a few words […]
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