You’ll never, ever hear me say this before 9 November 2014. But today, post Great Eastern Women’s Run, I’ll tell you that I’ll run 5 km all over again. The day has finally come and the moment I’ve signed myself up for has arrived.…
Ben Kao The darndest kid quotes and antics What to Expect... As a Mother
Welcome to Ben’s world – turning 6, and spouting nonsense
Is 6 the age when your child starts to say all the things you never taught him to say? Ben is turning 6 in February, and starting to say many, many things which I have never introduced. Like “what the…” And “bloody hell…” And…
Becks Kao Ben Kao Going Out! Learning fun! Milestones and growing up Re: learning and child training
What my kids caught which can never be taught when it poured
One of the perks of being a blogger, at least for me these days, besides getting the usual media invites for events and product samples for review, is to be invited to exercise. Which by the way, is great, because I so need to do…
Going Out! Happy days Reviews The Kao Kids
Superheroes unite! – A different kind of Halloween partying
Halloween isn’t something that’s celebrated in the Kao household but it’s certainly something we cannot escape from knowing that it is celebrated everywhere else. I had hoped I wouldn’t need to explain much about Halloween to the kids but the commercialisation of this celebration seems…
We’ve not read Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo yet, simply because I know my kids are terrified of monsters. I know it’s a clever story, and I know it’s a story about a clever mouse more than anything else, really. But I don’t intend to have…
It was finally time to remove the fibreglass cast on Nat’s right arm last week. He’s had his arm wrapped in one for two weeks ever since he fell and cracked the humerus on his right arm. We’ve been making sure it didn’t get…
(Self) Examination Family life as we know it The Kao Kids
Loving, small human beings called children
Years ago back when I was in secondary school, at a personality profiling workshop, I surprised myself with my own results. While my friends and peers had a mix of different personality traits, mine came from only one dimension, with nary a hint of variety.…
(Self) Examination Parenting 101 The Kao Kids
Reflections of a frazzledyellingimpatientbusyhelicopter Mom
It’s been really busy on the work front, now that I’ve started working. You know the thing about being a work-from-home + run-around-everywhere-when-you-need-to + full-time-mom-that-still-needs-to-ferry-everyone-around + run-a-business kind of mom is that she’s still a mom, and there are three little humans still needing her very much.…
Milestones and growing up Nat Kao Parenting 101 The darndest kid quotes and antics What to Expect... As a Mother
Goodbye Spiderman, Hello (Cast) Iron Man
It was a busy day for me. I was out and about, on my feet and in the car, settling paper work and fixing administrative matters for the business in between ferrying children to kindergarten, picking them up, getting them ready for their piano lesson,…
Becks Kao Ben Kao Homelearning fun Learning fun! Milestones and growing up Reading fun
Stories, they wrote
I’m raising some junior novelists, I tell you. Ever since this became a possibility: This treasure trove of a website called Teachers Pay Teachers is a wonderful repository of resources, many of which are free. Register an account, and search for “free dotted font”.…