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Baby Development

Now we begin potty training

October 5, 2009

It was a while back when I first wrote to ask for opinions of other parents regarding potty training their kids. Back then I was quite keen to get started on training Ryan to use the potty. But the suggestion then was to let him take his time and be ready at his own pace.
So [...]

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Too early for lessons on delayed gratification and financial education for my 2-year old?

September 30, 2009

I’ve never really known how to teach a child about delayed gratification. I guess we have tried to teach Ryan about this in a subconscious manner where we ask of him to save or postpone something for later.
But I do not expect a child of 2 years to naturally save something for the future if [...]

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Changing looks

September 26, 2009

Most parents want their kids to look like them. I remember wanting Ryan to look like me too. But when he was a newborn, he looked nothing like me. For a long time he really was a complete photocopy of his father. I got very small credits for his looks – only his eyelash was [...]

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Just how terrible is the Terrible-Twos stage?

September 23, 2009

Ryan has turned two about a month ago. He’s been an angel all these while (ok, maybe just to us, other people may see him as naughty whilst we are blinded by love!) but suddenly over the last week or so he’s been acting unlike his usual character. I was recently just talking about how [...]

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Bombarded with all kinds of kiddie lessons

September 3, 2009

Do you often find product mailers in your post boxes? We used to get plenty from housing developers and hypermarkets. So much so that most times they are unseen and simply dumped into the bins.
Lately there are a whole bunch of mailers for services in the area of children development and enrichment lessons. I would’ve thrown these [...]

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