Category: Parenting

  • Choom Choom!

    It’s been a very rough month so far, and I’m not in a position to elaborate further as to why. Just know that unreasonable people are involved, light will be shed soon, and the same said unreasonable people will have their comeuppance. Meanwhile, there are ways to raise one’s spirit. Unfortunately, Naomi has warned me…

  • A Word On The My First Skool Incident

    Iā€™m always struck by how much we delegate our personal lives to other people. The other day coming home on the Bintan Resorts Ferry, a family sat in the rows ahead of us. There were the parents, the two children and two foreign domestic workers. The younger of the two children was probably under two…

  • Screening Pre-School Staff

    There isn’t much worse than having your preschooler be mistreated and injured at the hands of the people you trust to look after your child while you’re at work – whether it’s your foreign domestic helper, nanny, or pre-school staff. I thought about whether it was right to post on FB the CCTV footage given…

  • How Did You Spend Father’s Day?

    This is the second consecutive Father’s Day we’ve been abroad with family, and I think it’s a good way to spend it. We’re gonna make this a tradition. To all Dads – Happy Father’s Day – it’s a day to be thankful for family, and for the time you get to spend with them. A…

  • There’s A Book For Dealing With Whiny Kids

    We have an arrangement at home with Kai where if he’s been really good he gets to exercise an option of half an hour of (apple) tv time in place of a bedtime storybook and a 5 minute chat about his day, but only if it isn’t already past bedtime (8pm). Two nights ago, he…