Helping Parents Succeed
It sounds counter-intuitive.
How can we learn secrets to a happy marriage from people who have divorced?
Sometimes, that’s how we learn… from mistakes of others.
Meaning if we want to have a happy marriage, we must learn from divorced people. So we don’t make the same mistakes.
That’s how the world works, doesn’t it? [Read more…]
It sounds like Chinese kung fu but it has nothing to do with martial arts.
It’s less glamorous than that.
Flying Mosquito Disease (飞蚊症) is the Chinese colloquial term for eye floaters.
Last Tuesday, I noticed there are exceptionally more flying objects in front of my eyes.
I thought they were mosquitoes or flies. Upon closer look, they are not. [Read more…]
Think we know more than babies?
Think again.
A reader shared with me an interesting experiment she and her friends did when they weaned their babies.
I admit I don’t know about this when J and K were young (I wish I did as it must be interesting). And it’s called baby-led weaning. [Read more…]
Phew! It was close.
I almost ran over a child this morning.
As usual, after getting my supplies of vegetables, I headed home. And I would pass by a secondary school.
As you may guess, there are kids moving about in the vicinity of school.
Suddenly, a teenage boy was running and crossing the road which I was about to drive pass. [Read more…]
I have to get something off my chest today.
I know I have mentioned this many times before. But I still want to do it.
One friend found it hard to contain her excitement as she managed to buy milk formula at a deep discount. She probably bought more than 10 tins.
She was happy on two counts: the savings and the formula she bought was one of the “best” brands available on the market.
It’s good for her 6-year old daughter. And she has got the ticket to health… or so she thinks. [Read more…]