Can you tell Asian Mum’s Network about how you became a children’s author? In 1996 my first play was performed at the Contact Theatre in Manchester when I was 17. My Little England was about second generation identity, based in a summer school in Manchester. In my early 20s, I began writing a novel called Mothballs… Read More
Sunita Mistry Shah is a children’s writer of a series of books called The Jai Jais. Sunita was inspired by her son Syon to write this series of books for children. “Nothing can beat grandma’s tales and stories, but I wanted a way to teach my son about Hindu Gods and Goddess from an early… Read More
The best way to understand the Dark Web, for instance, is to use an iceberg as an illustration and analogy of how content is shown on the Internet and that most of the things we see, publish and share online, represent just 4% of everything existent. To begin let’s call the top of the Iceberg World… Read More
In times where online privacy is at constant risk, our children need to be protected as never before from hackers who can spy on them and exploit sensitive information. Toys giants like Mattel and Hasbro have proved in recent years that their toy products can be vulnerable to cyber attacks just like any home with sloppy Internet security… Read More
Asian Mums Network and Cyber-Safe Zone have just launched a campaign to teach Ladies, mums and grandmothers digital media skills and internet safety training and it’s free! 1. Do you worry about what your children do online? 2. What social media do you use and would you like to learn more handy tips? Why does my 5-year child have… Read More
During pregnancy, you tend to focus on the growth of your baby and the impending birth rather than something like postnatal depression. There is something really important that you need to start thinking about in terms of what you can do and who you can draw on for support after you’ve had your beautiful baby.… Read More
In 1996 the Spanish socialist government decided it was time to lay the foundations in order to build the next generation of multilingual children. The reason why I say multilingual and not bilingual is that in Spain not only is Castellano spoken but there are four other languages including Valenciano, Gallego, Euskera and Catalan. El… Read More
Did you know that 43% of the world’s population is bilingual, 13% are trilingual, and 40% of the worlds is population is estimated to be monolingual? There are 11 indigenous languages spoken throughout the British Isles including Welsh, English, Scots, Irish Cornish and Scottish Gaelic to name but a few. There over 100 different languages… Read More
I was brought up in a bilingual home from birth. My native language is English, but my mother tongue is Bengali. I was born in England in the 1960s to Bangladeshi speaking parents. My parents spoke Bengali to each other but made a conscious decision to speak a mixture of English and Bengali to me… Read More
As a Fine Art student, my daughter produced some amazing work. Her unusual talent always intrigued me and I wondered where she got it from. As a youngster, I never pursued art myself and always dismissed any leanings in that direction. However, sometimes we discover things about ourselves later in life that we didn’t ever… Read More
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