Category: Parenting
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More than half of toys tested unsafe
The Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) tested a basket of 50 toys sold in Singapore, and more than half were found to be unsafe. Naomi and I are not surprised. But what I’d like to know is, what kind of crap toy is this? The pictorial list of toys is here, and I kinda agree…
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Oh, so that’s what a tantrum sounds like
Kai is growing really quickly. Every day he comes up with something new. Like yesterday morning, he tried taking off his pyjamas on his own – and I know I can’t be bothered to word the event in a more exciting fashion, because if you’re not a parent, you won’t get why I’m so amazed…
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All’s well in the world because our son can say “chicken”
He said it loudly and clearly – possibly the clearest he’s every pronounced any (English) word. The rest are approximations which we accept because he’s a baby and we’re his parents. “Chicken”, he said. And then Mama took out her iPhone and tried to make him repeat the word. As you’d expect, it wasn’t going…
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Our son is iPhone native
I’ve always been led to think that babies start saying their first word out of the blue, and start walking unaided all of a sudden. Kai can walk now, albeit with his arms in the air holding on to invisible parachute straps. But that has taken about a fortnight of taking one, then two unaided…
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A year and a week
It’s been a rough week since Kai’s birthday – with both Naomi and I under the weather with bouts of food poisoning, flu, and in Naomi’s case, a crook back that is a bit worrying, especially considering she’s had her spine surgerised before. And of course, a one-year old never lets up. Kai isn’t quite…