There are many things people try to avoid doing.
But some of these can give you one hell of a lesson, if you do.
One excellent example is an article I read recently.
Here’s the story: [Read more…]
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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…]
The day the family stood still
I hope this will not happen to your family.
I definitely don’t want this to happen again in my family as it seriously interrupts the workings of the household.
It surely disturbs even the littlest moments we enjoy each day with each other.
What happened? [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…]