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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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Thinking of starting Gymboree or equivalent classes

June 3, 2010

Ryan is going to turn 3 in a few months and up to now, he’s never really been socialising much with other kids. He does play with adults and older children, but never kids at his age.
We’re thinking of sending him to play school next year but before that, I thought it might help to [...]

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My son asked me why the moon follows us

May 27, 2010

Last night we were taking a short ride in the car when Ryan stared upwards to the sky and looked at the full and bright moon shining down on us. As we kept driving, he kept staring at the moon until it was out of sight.
After some turns here and there, the moon came back [...]

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Teaching kids to go green

May 20, 2010

I’m beginning to educate Ryan on going green. One of the things I started with is to teach him to save paper. He likes to draw with his colour pencils and we’ve got quite a large stack of paper for him to do that. After he draws all over the page, he would ask for [...]

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First time participating in story-telling activity

January 25, 2010

Yesterday was Ryan’s first attempt at joining a story-telling session at MPH book store. There were just a handful of kids there to listen to the story-reading and they ranged from 2 to 8 years old.
It was also Ryan’s first “public speaking” experience as he was handed the microphone and to tell everyone his name, [...]

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