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How to improve your child’s Chinese

After I published a post on my children’s school system, an SAP school which emphasizes greatly in Chinese traditions and values and everything Chinese, many parents wrote to me to ask how I manage to engage my kids’ interest in the Chinese language. To be honest, we started off easier than most parents whose kids are struggling with this language. We are a Chinese speaking family. In this post, I am going to share with you what we do in our family and 10 tips that sees our kids enjoy through this “monster” subject that many Singaporean children hate. Continue reading “How to improve your child’s Chinese”

Your stats are booming! [+behavior chart printable for younger kids]

Last night, I was pleasantly surprised by my WordPress stats boom in readership! Apparently, Rise and Shine, a parenting website which provides premium product offers, good tips and terrific parent community engagement, had decided to publish one of my blog post. They had shared my November write up of “Getting Kids To do Morning Routines without Nagging“. This has clocked my best one day page view to 1614 views and with more than 1100 unique visitors!! The blog post has 368 shares at the time of publishing this post and counting! Continue reading “Your stats are booming! [+behavior chart printable for younger kids]”

Getting kids to do morning routine without nagging [+ Free Printables!]

Every weekend morning, I find myself nagging at a few things to my kids. “Brush your teeth!“, “Have you made your bed?“, “Have you eaten breakfast?“, “Your PJs are still lying around on the sofa/bed/floor!” As I leave for work early in the morning on weekdays, I do not have the chance to monitor these daily morning routines and by the time I got back home in the evening, I saw PJs strewned around, messy beds, and learnt that the younger one did not brush his teeth in the morning.

Then come the daily squabbles and backtalk again from the kids. I find backtalking a periodic phase Continue reading “Getting kids to do morning routine without nagging [+ Free Printables!]”

Dealing with back talk and rude behaviour [+ Free Printables!]

Recently my 6-yr-old has been going into her “pre-tweens” stage. Yes, “pre-tweens”! (Tween is the new word for describing someone between child and teen age, and I guess my girl belongs to the stage before that, hence, “pre-tweens”) She has been defiant and rude to her mummy and daddy. She challenges our stare or no stare, mumbles under her breath, knuckles on her waist, folds her arms, back talks, anything that you can see in an adolescent. Oh dear! You can imagine how devastated I feel. My natural instinct was to flip back on my childhood memories and nope, I could not find anything similar in my childhood days to deal with such behaviour. Usually I will think back on how my mother would have dealt with such a situation and mirror her actions or improvised from there. My next thinking is self-blame. This is bad. I start to think I may not have spent enough time with her. There were some changes in the house recently as we just moved house. Next on my thought list is that she picked up from her friends in school. Fair enough, I gave her the benefit of the doubt that she is not by nature a rude girl. Continue reading “Dealing with back talk and rude behaviour [+ Free Printables!]”