Aslı Nemutlu Aslı 17 yaşında, sevdiği şeyi yaparken, kayak kayarken, aramızdan ayrıldı. Korkunç bir kaza onu bu dünyadan ve sevdiklerinden aldı. Ne yazık ki, Aslı’nın trajik ölümünden sonra, okulda yazdığı bir kompozisyonu, bir köşe yazarı tarafından ele alınarak, oldukça yargılayıcı ve hatalı bir yorum eşliğinde, Aslı’nın 17 yıllık kısa ama güzel hayatını ve ailesini gölgeleyecek [...]
Asli’s Flow Asli passed away at the age of seventeen while doing what she loved doing – skiing. A freak accident took her away from this world and her loved ones. Unfortunately, after Asli’s tragic passing one of her personal essay was picked up by a columnist and published together with a highly judgmental and [...]
Aslı Nemutlu A friend of mine lost a daughter at age 17 on a ski slope couple of weeks ago. She was in the Turkish national ski team. It is such a fulfilling event to support your child doing something they are passionate about – and then there is that freak accident that takes your [...]
I stopped watching television 15 years ago. I didn’t like the idea of “the media” dictating what to watch and when to watch it, nor did I want it to manage my mind. Now, thanks to Apple TV, I can enjoy television shows again because I can choose which ones I want to watch and [...]
We all have a handful of embarrassing childhood memories that will stick with us for life – the day we fell in a fountain at the mall, the time we said something that made our faces turn red on a date, the evening we called someone by the wrong name… Learning to recognize and manage embarrassment is [...]
As a follow-up to my recent post, When Children Are Emotional – How to Respond, I think it is important to discuss emotions as they pertain to us as adults. After all, if we are not emotionally intelligent, it will be hard to help our children understand and learn from their own emotions. As I [...]