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14 July 2022 – 3:34 pm |

“Thanks” to today’s gadgets, more and more kids tend to say, “I don’t know what I’m good at. I don’t know what I like. I’m not interested in anything actually.” (But somehow they are interested …

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Learning to tackle : Kids and their behaviour

15 December 2008 | Posted in: Parenting | 8 Comments

Now here’s a little update on the kids and their behaviour.
The good, the bad and the ugly.
To start off positively, so far they’ve been quite okay. Well at least according to my standards (and especially …

When words are unkind

12 November 2008 | Posted in: Inspirational, Parenting | 8 Comments

Recently I posted some tips and thoughts on how to raise respectful children.
And one of the reasons why I put it up is because I too am faced with challenging attitudes from my 4.5yo girl, …

Parenting Tips and Thoughts : Raising respectful children

10 November 2008 | Posted in: Parenting | No Comment

When babies are born, we find them all cute and adorable, don’t we? Their little coos and gurgles. Their tiny hands holding onto our fingers. Their eyes looking oh so intently into ours. Treasured and …

Parenting Tips and Thoughts : Are we ‘overscheduling’ our kids?

24 October 2008 | Posted in: Parenting | 9 Comments

 
We’ve seen advertisements everywhere around us.
Art classes. Chinese classes. How to be an ‘early reader’. Maths. Soccer. Swimming. Piano lessons. Violin. Ballet classes.
In many parts of the world, especially in Singapore – where it is …

My ‘date’ with Vai

17 October 2008 | Posted in: Parenting | 12 Comments

Before Vai came along and joined our little family, we spent a whole lot of time with our ‘only’ child, Anya. We went out and about even when Daddy couldn’t join us. We’d do activities …

Sunday’s Food for Thought – Children, their ‘comfortable’ living and their fighting spirit

12 October 2008 | Posted in: Inspirational, Parenting | 2 Comments
Sunday’s Food for Thought – Children, their ‘comfortable’ living and their fighting spirit

Parents who are materially well-off are to be more careful when raising their children. Because in such families where money tends to not be a big concern, the children – since very young – tend …

Anya: Now and Then

10 October 2008 | Posted in: Parenting, Photography | 6 Comments

I was looking at our old photo archives the other day and found this!

Anya was only one year old in that photo. And to think that THAT was taken three and a half years ago …

While we still can

6 October 2008 | Posted in: Parenting | 3 Comments

Children will not be with us forever. As they grow up, they’ll increasingly be independent, the way they all should be.
And so as weeks, months and years pass by, our time with them and the …

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