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Have you registered your toddlers?

January 23, 2010

Only a couple of weeks ago I learned from some experienced mothers that you need to register your kids to primary schools very early on if you want them to go to some good schools. I was shocked to learn that parents actually register their 2 or 3 year olds to primary schools already! All [...]

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Change of learning curve

January 17, 2010

Now that I’m in business for myself, I find that the things I learned while being an employee are useful but I still have a steep learning curve when being on my own. Most of the time I talk to lots of people and therefore need to be at least an interesting person to hold [...]

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My son wanted to swim naked!

October 19, 2009

I have wanted to start Ryan on swimming some months ago, but all I did was talk and talk and talk and then came the H1N1 and I chickened out bringing him to a public pool. But we did buy him his swimsuit, and it waited patiently to be worn. Then some weeks back the [...]

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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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Short cut to teaching kids good manners

September 9, 2009

For a while now I’ve been pondering how parents teach their children good manners. How do you first break into the topic of good manners? How do you explain to a toddler what “good manners” means? How do you begin go teach them about the 3 magic words and maybe even what the term “magic [...]

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Don’t you love kids who are caring little helpers?

August 24, 2009

I love it whenever I see Ryan showing care to others. Some may see his actions as being a cute little busy-body but I feel that this is a good foundation to help build up his caring and helpful character.
Ryan first started to offer his help whenever he saw me folding up the blankets and clothes. [...]

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