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When okay doesn’t mean anything

January 5, 2009

We have recently taught the boy more words and one of them include ‘okay’. He says it in a rather cute way and we love hearing it. So we ask him a lot of questions and ask him if it’s okay and he’ll say okay. But of course, he doesn’t understand that an okay is [...]

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Passive learning

December 22, 2008

All the while, we play an active role in teaching baby things, whether to speak, walk, actions, etc, we always need to firstly engage his attention in order for us to impart knowledge. But now, I found that he learns even without us engaging him.
He’s learning words as he hears them from our conversations. I [...]

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When should a child start schooling?

November 17, 2008

Is there an ideal time to send your kids to pre-school? When I was a kid, most children only started school at the age of six, straight into kindergarten. Pre-schools weren’t that popular back then but now, it seems like the thing to do for a lot of families. How do you decide when the [...]

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Little Reader from BrillKids

October 21, 2008

I recently got to try out this new software from BrillKids called Little Reader. It is a useful flashcard kit for me, where I not only can use the software to show baby flashcards, but also create my own! I like the idea of being able to customise our own sets of flashcards because we can show him things [...]

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Don’t assume your baby doesn’t know what you don’t teach

October 21, 2008

Last night we played an impromptu word game with the little boy in an attempt to get him to stay put and not dash about (we’re quite tired chasing after him). So we started asking him questions like these:
“Where’s your mouth? Where’s your eyes? Where’s the fan?”
And the game went on and on, we asked [...]

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