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Unhealthy trend among wealthy parents

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Photo Credit: Andrew Vargas

Here’s a report I read recently:

There’s a 20% increase in the spending on luxury items for children among Chinese parents this year compared to the last. They spend more than 3,000 yuan (USD $471) a month to pamper their children with elite brand items (i.e. Gucci Kids, Burberry Children, Baby Dior, Armani Junior).

It gets even more interesting: It’s estimated that the amount is going to hit 8,000 yuan (USD $1,255) per year by end of 2013 regardless of the income of the family. Given the current average income of China is at 21,800 yuan a year, the spending on luxury items is going to touch 36.7% of the income.

Oh boy, more than a third goes to luxury clothes and toys. [Read more…]

Parents can be sneaky too… sometimes

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almond - healthy eating
Photo Credit: HealthAliciousNess

Children are not the only ones have the ticket to be sneaky, parents too can be crafty.

When you’re cornered, you have to find a way out.

I made almond milk this week. Not wanting to waste it, I forced myself to come up with new ideas to use almond pulp in my cooking.

What did I make? [Read more…]

When picky eaters can be picky

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Picky Eater
Photo Credit: David Goehring

Why children love to eat junk food and shun away from healthy food?

Running out of ideas what to do with the veggie-haters?

If you have one picky eater at home, read on.

Everybody knows fruits and vegetables are good for children’s health. And they are natural healers (and inhibitors) for common diseases. And numerous researches also prove that they can even help you ward off critical illnesses such heart disease and cancer.

The problem: your child runs away faster than a cheetah when being served with plant-based, unprocessed foods (also known as healthy foods).

There’s one simple solution to this problem. In fact, it’s not as difficult as you make it up to be.

Here is the 2-step system… [Read more…]

The encounter of the fourth kind of…

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Teething
Photo Credit: Tambako The Jaguar

A week ago, K complained that his mouth was painful. Also before that he had a mild fever.

I thought, “Oh no! Not HFMD again!”

We took a flashlight and shined on K’s mouth. And found nothing.

We felt relieved for the time being.

The next day, he complained again. But this time, he said the pain came from the gums of the bottom left of the mouth. [Read more…]

History Lessons at Lembah Bujang, Merbok, Kedah

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We took a quick trip to Lembah Bujang in Merbok during the recent school holiday.

Lembah Bujang (The Bujang Valley) is not as popular as other destinations in Malaysia but it sure gives visitors an awesome lesson in history.

A great place for history lovers as well as to teach children history.

I can remember vaguely that I studied about Lembah Bujang in school.

Lembah Bujang was a central port which served as a trade center for traders dominating the trading routes between the eastern and western countries especially the Chinese, Indian and Arab traders. [Read more…]