All About Your Child

Half Man Half Tree

Details below are taken from Discovery Channel

32 year old Dede lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an extraordinary skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body – branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.

He is known locally as ‘Tree Man’ and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows.

According to my friend Aldian, Dede’s wife left him and got sacked from his job.

You can view his special interview. The roots are growing fast and getting heavier. Now his only wish is to be able to live long enough to see his grandchildren.

It takes alot of courage to carry on living in such a state…on this joyous season, let’s take time to be thankful for what we have and teach your child to always be grateful for who he or she is, never take anything for granted.

Have you or your child been complaining? What do you think goes through the mind of this man when he hears the type of things you complain about?

Stickers were contributed by Keatkeat’s school teacher. He was so excited about the stickers and kept telling me all the good habits that we must have when we go to the toliet. He wanted to make sure that ‘everyone’ remembers so he asked if he could stick them in our toliet.

My reply, “Why Not?” He told me that he is afraid he may not stick them well, so he requested me to do it and that I must do a good job….

Well, he was the instructor, I just do the sticking…so we stick here…

and here…

AND HERE!

“Thank you, mummy.” Keatkeat said with a smile full of pride as he looks at the stickers.

Every now and then, he would point to the pictures and say, “remember ah….do not…..”

This is really good when it comes to building good habits in children. Get them stickers, get them to participate in the sticking process, it does get into their heads.

Mmmm…maybe I should start finding stickers on “SIT 3 meters away from the TV”!