Christmas came early for us with Thomas the Number One Tank Engine, and his hilarious, fun-loving friends! We were invited by City Square Mall to celebrate Christmas with Thomas and his friends, Sir Topham Hatt, Dusty and Rusty – the boisterously merry station duo…
I’m not going to be writing a ‘New York Times Parents’ Guide to the Best Books for Children’ kind of post for this entry, but I’d like to share some of the books that the kids and I love, and how they have helped…
We’ve been eating in more often than out lately because something black and big has given us every reason to. This something big and black is my new Philips Airfryer. Say what? Yes, you heard that right – an AIR fryer. Apparently, air is now…
This post chronicles my son’s development over the years, particularly his changing obsessions with toys and characters. This post is written for parents with little boys – I’d like to offer you a glimpse of what you might encounter the next few years raising…
Questions a four-and-a-half-year-old asks his mother about Transformers Question 1: How did Optimus Prime become so powerful? Question 2: Why is there no one driving Optimus Prime? Question 3: Why is there someone driving Bumblebee? Question 4: How do the Autobots transform? What buttons do…
It’s no rocket science that in order to raise a reader, you need to do one most important thing. Surround the child with books… Books… And more books… Simply having books everywhere around the child will make reading the default activity every time they…
We’re going to be seeing a lot of yellow this Christmas! As part of Changi Airport‘s Christmas festivities this year, the folks at Bikini Bottom are surfacing from under the sea to spread some Christmas cheer. We were invited to preview what Changi Airport…
Two weeks ago I experienced symptoms similiar to a fourth pregnancy: nausea, bloating, morning sickness. I was wretching bile in the early hours of the first two mornings and kept awake at night by cold sweat as my tummy started getting all knotted up…
Since the year is coming to a close, and since I often get questions from readers who ask me how I teach my three children who are so close in age, I thought I’d start a series on the resources I use and the…
We all know how grim fairy tales can be (pun intended). So many of the pervasive stories found in the Brothers Grimm’s tales in their original versions can be terribly terrifying, gruesome and bizarre. Like I would never forget how my Lit teacher deconstructed…