Helping Parents Succeed
Everything you want to know about raising happy, confident, healthy children.
If you know me well, I HATE smoking.
Not only is it dangerous to the smoker, it’s also no good for people around him.
Furthermore, the habit drains your pocket.
Lose-lose situation.
It makes things even worse if you have children around you.
The other day, I glanced through a letter sent in by a reader in a local newspaper. [Read more…]
K attended his friend’s birthday party yesterday afternoon.
The children were very excited and many of them jumping up and down for joy.
As usual, besides the music and food and cake, there were games.
The group was divided into two teams and they competed against each other.
After each game, every member of the winning team would receive a present.
There’s one scene that I didn’t expect to see but it happened. [Read more…]
Rumor has it that Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise split up over Scientology Parenting.
For the uninitiated, Tom Cruise is a staunch follower of Scientology – a religion which Tom is known to be one of the celebrity Scientologists.
But here’s the problem, Katie – raised as Catholic – doesn’t quite agree with the rules of Scientology that Tom wants Suri to follow.
Katie wants to raise her daughter differently. She is fed up with the demands of child rearing based on Scientology. [Read more…]
No I am not talking about ass-cleaning.
It’s about something that J and K have come up with.
Let me tell you how it all started.
Not long ago, I have “assigned” some chores to J and K: wiping the table and washing dishes.
Both of them take turns to do one of the chores after dinner every evening. [Read more…]
In the past, he got no luck with gardening. Be it flower or vegetable or tree.
Whatever he planted, died.
That’s what his wife claimed. No hope of growing anything (with the exception of weeds, of course). Let alone enjoying the fruits of his labor.
He accepted the fate that he did not have a green thumb. Finally, he gave up hope and hung up the hoe and boots.
Not until recently, he took the courage to prove that he is not a hopeless gardener – after a few years of hiatus.
He wants to make sure that this time it works. So he read a few books on gardening, especially organic gardening, to make sure that it’s a success. No failure allowed.
That ego-satisfying reason is not the ultimate reason. In fact, there’s another more important reason for this revival: he wants to teach a lesson (or two) to his two young children. [Read more…]