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Should Boys Learn How to Cook?

8 May 2012 – 12:57 am | 6 Comments

[Vai preparing breakfast for everyone]

Decades ago they’d answer you with a No, I think.
Because the common value many people believed in at the time was: Cooking and the kitchen were more for the girls.
Well, what’s …

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Parent’s Day

10 May 2008 | Posted in: Daily | No Comment
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Today we went to our very first Parent’s Day celebration at Anya’s school!
It was sort of an exciting-yet-weird kind of feeling for me. I mean it was like, wow I am attending my daughter’s PARENT’S …

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It’s okay if you can’t swim yet

9 May 2008 | Posted in: Daily | No Comment
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… because there’s a whole lot of other water-fun stuff you can do in the pool!

And of course, sometimes one may prefer a quieter activity like pouring water from one bottle to another, while the …

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When two siblings are together

8 May 2008 | Posted in: Daily | No Comment
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My home gets pretty rowdy these days.
Other than doing quieter activities together, they play and laugh real loud. They play chase with each other and run around the house. They give each other big hugs …

‘First-time Mom’ – Backseat Dads

7 May 2008 | Posted in: Marriage & Relationships, Parenting | 5 Comments
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As a follow-up on my post last Saturday, here’s one topic from Dr Kevin Leman’s book “First-time Mom” that I’d like to share with you today.
It’s on the role of daddies in the family and …

Tennis for kids

Anya went with her Daddy for a free trial lesson of kids tennis this morning, at Advantage School of Tennis. More for kids between the age of three to five.
It was her very first ‘sports’ …

Sunday’s Food for Thought – Fairness to all

4 May 2008 | Posted in: Inspirational | No Comment
Sunday’s Food for Thought – Fairness to all

Little children do not ask for their parents to be rich. They don’t resent their mom for not being pretty. They will not choose whom they wish to have as their parents.
But, all little children …

Video : Anya and her ‘I love you Mama’ chinese song

3 May 2008 | Posted in: Daily, Video | No Comment
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Anya has learned quite a few English and Chinese songs from school. And usually she’d sing for me the new songs she’s learned when I pick her up right after school.
And so this is her …

Video : National Library Trip

3 May 2008 | Posted in: Daily, Video | No Comment

Took the kids to the huge National Library near Bugis Junction today.
Anya enjoyed the trip a lot, and she ended up borrowing a really nice english-mandarin pictorial board book (which I know even I myself …

Book : First-time Mom

2 May 2008 | Posted in: Marriage & Relationships, Parenting, Video | One Comment
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Here’s one parenting book I’d like to recommend today.
First-time Mom, by Dr. Kevin Leman.
Getting off on the right foot – from birth to first grade
After a friend of mine shared how insightful the book …