We never had such a packed weekend. Just last weekend, it was full of non-stop activities. The children enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

He was coughing badly on Monday night and my wife thought it would be a good idea for K to rest at home the next day instead of going to kindergarten.

The air quality lately is terribly bad and many people fall sick. To make it worse is the outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1).

Fortunately, K was active as usual yesterday. His cough is bad only in the middle of the night, and lasts for 10-20 minutes. For no reason, magically he stops coughing after that. But when he coughs, I will try all available ideas to soothe him and put him back to sleep: giving him warm water, applying Vicks, carrying him, putting him on a higher pillow, and so on.

Today is the second day and we decided to send him back to kindy. Plus after staying home for a day, he himself requested to go to school.

Having a bad experience in the past, I really hope that K’s cough will not get from bad to worse.

I don’t know about you.

It’s very hard to find one dish that two of my preschool children love at the same time and say a resounding “yes” when I ask if they would like to have it for dinner.

In fact I myself love this dish. And I found out this by accident.

He got stung by his elder sister.

You see, on a regular basis, my preschooler daughter and also K’s sister, J, has spelling exercises to do as her homework. And I will help her practice at home before the actual spelling tests.

As you may already know from reading “Traveling With Children On A Long Distance Trip (And Your Best Tips?)”, my wife and I with two preschoolers went on an 8-hour flight to Melbourne recently.

I was so worried that (because of past experience), I needed some advice on how to help me to get through the long flight with two young children tagging along.

I know I know the buzz of Mother’s Day has passed… exactly a week ago. But good things should never end, especially when it comes from a young 6-year old.

As they say, “It’ better late than never.” My daughter painted a Mother’s Day card for her mom last Friday in school. When I first looked at J’s card, I was stunned.

We will be going on an 8-hour flight to Melbourne in a few days.

What makes it challenging is not the distance of the location, but my wife and I are traveling with two young kids.

My children had one week school holidays from 14 to 22 March. We did not have any special plans for the holidays - with the exception that we ended the holidays with something out of the ordinary.

When I say “out of the ordinary,” I mean these are not the usual things we do on a normal weekend.

This has never happened to my children.

For some strange reason, just within a day, my toddler son K coughed continuously (also known as non-stop! It’s that bad that you wanted to hide your face from his flying sliver) yesterday. It even disrupted his daily nap.

Going to school for the first time is quite an experience for the child… and of course parents. My son, K, has had an “exciting” first week in school. This is the first time in his almost three years of life going to kindergarten and mixing with a group of strangers who are called teachers and friends.

Here are the highlights of the week in K’s first week of school life.