Parenting

This incident caught J off guard.

Sad but true, she’s beginning to see the “real” world and it is not as “nice” as she used to think.

You see I would never have thought this would happen to J who is one year short of 10. To top it off, this shouldn’t have happened in school. [Read more…]

Bonjour.

This statement does not come from me.

It’s from Pamela Druckerman. She is the author of “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.” She made the statement after her observations on French parents. [Read more…]

I first heard of this crazy thing a few years ago when my friend told me about it.

I couldn’t believe what I heard then. I was floored, to say the least.

In this case, my friend told me his friend sent a maid to accompany his son to study in the US.

And just a few days back, I read an article about how undergraduates of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University brought their maids from home to help clean hostels for them. [Read more…]

“Celaka” is a second class word.

If you are not familiar, “celaka” is a Malay word equivalent to “damn it”, or “shit.”

Although it is not a good word, the bad word taught me a powerful parenting lesson last Friday.

Last weekend was a long one as we had public holidays on Monday and Tuesday. [Read more…]

You bet.

If you think it hasn’t, think again. Apple has successfully taken over children’s life.

Here’s the proof:

A teacher had asked the students in a French kindergarten in Vancouver to come up with words that start with the letter “i.”

And guess what?

From an answer sheet, 6 out of 10 words are related to Apple products. And the kids are not left behind as one of the answers is iCloud (unveiled by the late Steve Jobs in June 2011).

Maybe you think this is an exaggeration.

But take a look at this. [Read more…]