Helping Parents Succeed
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Heard a joke on the radio.
It goes something like this:
After dinner, mother and daughter are doing the dishes in the kitchen while father and son are in the living room watching TV.
Then comes a crashing sound from the kitchen. Someone obviously breaks a plate or something.
“It was mom,” the son says confidently.
“Why are you so sure it was mom?” the father asks, puzzled.
The son replied, “Because I don’t hear any scolding.”
Father: “………” [Read more…]
It’s a rare scene. At least in my country.
While I was slurping my noodles at a coffee shop, I saw a mother with 4 children. The eldest one is about 12 years old and the youngest is about 4.
She had to take care of not one but 4 kids by herself – without a maid. It’s no easy task.
“Impressive,” I thought silently.
The Supermom was buying ice-cream for the children. You can tell the excitement on the children’s faces.
This is when the ugly episode unfolded right in front of my eyes. [Read more…]
Read an interesting article in the paper recently.
It’s a survey conducted in the UK about the skills learned by children.
Want to know what those skills are?
Here they are at random order: [Read more…]
After getting home from seeing my folks out of town, we reached home quite late last Sunday. Upon reaching, to make way for the car to go in, we reversed another car. Without seeing a neighbor’s car behind, we hit and scratched it.
Since it was late at that moment and nobody was around, no one saw what happened. We had the luxury to keep the incident swept under the carpet. Or we braved ourselves telling our neighbor the truth. [Read more…]
Don’t get me wrong. I hardly watch movies, let alone going to cinema.
However after reading many rave reviews of the latest installment of James Bond, I couldn’t contain my curiosity but to watch it.
Last Saturday, I took my wife (yes, without the kids!) to watch Skyfall at a cinema after, God knows, how long.
To my disappointment, it turned out that I didn’t like the latest 007 movie.
Maybe I had different expectations. Maybe I am judging it based on the perceptions I have about the past James Bond movies: fast cars, latest gadgets, Bond girls… [Read more…]