Category: Life Skills
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What’s the ONE thing you should really LOSE? 🤨
Not sure about you but this whole circuit-breaker / lockdown situation that we are caught in is finally taking its toll on me! 😫 It must be the need to rationalize with the kids on screen time / homework completion / whining (and a whole lot of other annoyances) that made me ‘lose it’ –…
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How do we even teach kids something like CONFIDENCE💃🕺?
I recently did a virtual parent-teacher session with my preschooler’s teacher and amongst the feedback she gave me on my daughter’s learning and development in school, the one that hit me most was that she’s “not confident”. Despite what I know are good intentions, honestly I was taken aback because I thought she was. She…
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What is the quickest way to gain 💯 CLARITY and maintain SANITY?
Owing to the Covid-19 circumstance, these days I’ve been keeping myself rather busy with work-from-home (WFH) arrangements and home-based learning (HBL) for the kids. Talk about multi-tasking at it’s finest! Not to mention, the ultimate mindblowing experience for parents! 🤯 But in all honesty, it wasn’t all that bad… At least I’m still sane. Heheh……
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What’s the QUICKEST way to turn your kid into a SERIAL READER 📚? (Part 2)
In an earlier post, I shared how moms can build a reading habit in young kids – not rocket science, but something which I felt had some subtle tricks involved to “make it work”, and that parents like me failed to figure out sooner… until my kids were way past that “impressionable” stage. My elder…
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What’s the QUICKEST way to turn your kid into a SERIAL READER 📚? (Part 1)
I have always been struggling to get my kids onboard with habitual reading. Okay, maybe I haven’t struggled all the time (because I dropped out halfway 😛) but I did try the common advices out there, along the lines of “make reading a routine at bedtime”. The awful truth is, I just couldn’t keep up…
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