Connect, Learn and have FUN grocery shopping with your children. I was grocery shopping with my son on the weekend and he mentioned that the pricing on some items on [...]
What is maths? According to Wikipedia, “ it is the study of quantity, structure, space and change”. Sounds complicate? Actually it is not! You see, maths is alive! It is being applied every [...]
Personally, coming from an Asian family, my love for gardening is not that great. However, my brother and mother would not support this view as both of them love their [...]
Source: Body and Soul section of The Advertiser newspaper, 21 Jan 2018 Enlarged article: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/tokpanjang/Images/kidsinkitchen.jpg My editor just sent me this article to highlight and enforce the messages I am [...]
Guide and share your culture with your grandchildren from your kitchen! I was at a tea shop talking with the manager about various teas... and somehow our topic of conversation [...]
Daun Kaduk / Wild Betel Nut Leaf I am not writing a recipe today, just introducing a simple colouring page for the kids - introducing our Asian herbs. So today's colouring-in is [...]
I am going to refer back to this article – http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/childrens-literacy-study-links-hearing-words-to-reading-ability/8697138 ” – Children’s literacy study links hearing words to reading ability for first time, researchers say”. (Do check it out; it is [...]
It is about the journey … not the destination! by Albert G Imagine how a bowl of assam laksa can ripple into a 2 hour conversation… I was sharing assam [...]
Schooling is an important part of our lives. I am currently spending two weeks in Penang to visit my parents and relatives. It has been great to meet up with [...]
Social and emotional competency is crucial when determining school readiness. As a parent, education of our children is always on our minds – even when travelling. I am currently making [...]
Nowadays with work, career and social media, we tend to communicate and interact face-to-face less and less with each other. As we know, when we interact and communicate less, the [...]
Involve your children; they love to help! With our busy daily commitments, our main focus would be to try to use the little time everyday we have with our children [...]
Have a look at the image above, this is a photo of our lemon tree. I saw a few green lemons and thought let's make something out of these lemons. [...]
The best way for your child to learn is first through FUN, and, secondly, by applying what they know through everyday interactions. The third way is by presenting challenges so [...]
Social and emotional competency is crucial when determining school readiness. As parents, our children’s education can be a very top priority in our planning. Perhaps it has been instilled in [...]
How to turn daily chores with your children into family connections and bonding opportunities Ideally, parents would love to spend as much time as they possible could with their children; [...]
Connections and bonding are about shared experiences Parents are busy; we often struggle to find enough time for our families, thus, how do you find the time to connect and [...]
It is the school holidays, so I am seeing many families in the shopping mall and grocery stores. I have seen stressed parents hurrying up the children while grabbing [...]
How frustrating, upsetting and stressful can it be if your child won't eat or dislikes the food that you place on the table? Are you frustrated that all your thoughts [...]
Create connections with your children and building relationships with them is about interacting and communicating on every occasion and opportunity you have with them. I find that the easiest way [...]
Here are 10 Fantastic Reasons why children can benefit from cooking: 1. Self Confidence When children successfully cook a dish, they will gain great satisfaction and build self [...]
Positive shared experiences are very important in developing strong, confident, self assured and compassionate children. Such experiences can be spending quality time with your children, being attuned to your children's [...]
A child's learning is enhanced through daily fun interactions with adults! Let's get your hands dirty and make learning fun, shall we? Can you remember how you were taught maths [...]
Make your shared memories with them fun and joyful This I know for sure: parents love their children and will do anything within their power to make sure that their [...]
Play is children’s language for…fun, pleasure, joy, relaxing, exploring, creating and learning. Through play, children learn and grow. Through play, children learn about their environment, learn about themselves, learn about [...]
“Play is as old as the existence of mankind. Play things were discovered in the artifacts of ancient civilization”. Early Childhood News by Shelly Butler Children are born natural learners. [...]
We can say that PLAY is important for both adults and children. It helps to release stress, enhances creativity and encourages social interactions. Play teaches us many things. Play provides [...]
Make your shared memories with them fun and joyful Whether your child is heading off to school for the first time, or whether your have been through the schooling phase, [...]
I am very inspired by the above quote! So today’s topic is about speaking the language of your children. As parents, we love our children – there is no doubt [...]
10 fun holiday activities at home that create connections School holidays are always a great time to rest, recuperate, rejuvenate and reconnect with your children. Just relax and breath... No [...]
A young child's brain develops at a very rapid rate, especially from birth to 5 years of age. This is a time when they absorb information very rapidly through exploring, [...]
Make everyday interactions fun and teaching moments for them I talked about school readiness, and making sure that your children is ready before sending them off to structured schooling. If [...]
Life is full of learning. Children, whether young or at school, are born curious and resilient. Their brains are like sponges, soaking up as much information they can from every [...]
Since we were talking about grocery shopping this week, I thought it would be nice to do something fun with identifying and counting fruits. Preschoolers Give them the simple and [...]
Connections with your children are about shared experiences I have talked about empowering the love of learning in your children through daily interactions, as they learn through FUN and directly [...]
Children are born resilient with high optimism. They do not understand fear, success or failure when they are young. If you see a baby learning to crawl or stand up, [...]
With the technological world we are in right now, reading and writing has changed. I am one of the many that took advantage of the convenience of technology and I [...]
Can you remember when you played peek-a-boo, cuddled and sung to your baby daily? However, as the children grow up, parents tend to do these play activities less and less. [...]
Empower the love of learning in your children through daily interactions One of the many reasons people migrate to a new country is to search for better lifestyles and education [...]
These two weeks are my children’s exam weeks in the Uni. We were discussing about the exams preparation experiences with my children. On top of that, my parents, both are [...]
