No parenting lesson today.
I hope you don’t mind I occasionally talk about something other than parenting.
Something hit me and I wanted to share with you.
Here goes. [Read more…]
Bigger than parenting
Fun Times
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Less is more when it comes to creativity
I see something interesting among my kids.
It started a few years back with J. But now, K is also part of the picture.
I notice that they always come up with their own games to kill time.
To give you an idea, here are some of things they have done: [Read more…]
Bitten by the reading bug
One evening just last week, K did something unusual.
You see on a normal evening, he’ll ask me (or my wife) to read to him before bed.
But that night, out of the blue, he felt bored “listening” to stories and he wanted to read the book himself, instead.
At one go, he finished reading two stories that evening: Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood.
I thought that was it. [Read more…]
Proof that bonding can be simple and fun
You see it’s good to have friends and relatives who are migrating.
Not that I encourage them to but…
Anyway my nephew was migrating to the kangaroo land recently and he left us a few piles of stuff.
One of the piles is old issues of a local magazine which targets primary school students.
(By the way, it’s called “Ge Mei Lia” if you are interested.)
The pile was left quietly untouched in one corner of the house until J and K took the effort to dig some issues of the magazine out on that one fateful day.
Out of boredom and curiosity, I took a copy and browsed. [Read more…]
Winter Clothing in Summer Playground
Last Saturday, there’s nothing unusual when I took J and K to playground for a round of cycling exercise.
It’s as packed as any other weekend.
Kids were running around and screaming in joy.
Bubbles (blown by both children and parents) were carried away by evening breeze.
A few kites were dotting the sky.
And in the far corner of the park was an ice-cream vendor ringing his bell attracting attention.
It was just a normal, hot, dry evening…
Until I laid my eyes on something rather unusual: [Read more…]