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How do you begin school hunting?

August 17, 2010

We’re planning to send Ryan to a play school next year. The thing is, I don’t know where to start looking for suitable schools. Should I just ask for recommendations from friends and then go to those schools to visit one by one? How did you get started looking for play schools for your kids?
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Fun “treasure hunt” book for kids – Zoo Animals

July 16, 2010

A few months ago we bought Ryan a book from MPH called Zoo Animals. It only cost me RM16.90 and it’s really worth its value in terms of providing education and fun for all of us.

This book teaches about animals and there are plenty of them to learn about. We adults learned something from the [...]

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Where to buy Ni Hao, Kai-Lan DVDs

June 16, 2010

Ryan loves watching Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, the show about a little Chinese girl named Kai-Lan and her grandpa and friends. Actually I encourage him to watch it too because the show teaches children some basic Mandarin words one episode at a time. The songs are pretty catchy and fun too and he’s shown quite a [...]

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Putting my new found knowledge into parenting

June 5, 2010

I spent the entire day away today, only coming home just after 5pm to spend the evening with Ryan. Though I feel some guilt sometimes for being away on weekends, but I know that taking this weekend away to learn something new and valuable is worth the sacrifice.
I attended a workshop that continues for another [...]

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Is it true that it’s difficult to get entry to schools?

June 4, 2010

I was talking to Ryan’s babysitter about some schools that we preferred over others and our intention to send Ryan there in the future. She was previously a teacher and she was telling us how some parents found difficulties in getting their children to their preferred schools.
She told me a story about how a parent [...]

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