Do you want to get a sense of your child’s life at school but don’t know how to go about it? Or your child doesn’t know what to say. You can use some of these 10 questions below to help your child open up. Chat with your child over an afternoon tea after school.
1. Tell […]

If you have a preschooler at home, this interesting information via TravelingToLiteracy might alert you. According to researchers, reading is a learned skill rather than an endowment.
“PROVEN METHODS: Early Reading First and Reading First”
How can we, as parents, help our preschoolers to acquire reading skills as early as they can?

I was amazed by a short article in which Eric counts many blessings of having a newborn baby in home. Some of the words I especially like:

Homeless people quickly learn not to sift through your trash anymore.

All your problems disappear as you come to the realization that there’s no time to deal with them, nor […]

Psychology Today posted an interview with Dr. W. Fischer on children’s reading disabilities. The population of children with problem reading projected by Dr. Fischer is not small indeed.
How big is the population of children with problem reading? He estimated that, “perhaps 1 in 10 need extra help.”
“It depends on where you set the criteria, but […]

By quoting an article, The Trouble With Boys , Blogging Baby brought up the issue of raising boys that generated a lot of discussions and stated:
“According to the article, since boys are biologically, developmentally and physiologically different from girls, special steps need to be taken to ensure that they excel.”
The article’s striking title summarizes the […]

Here I found 10 interesting ways to toilet training on zipbaby. The way of “Blue & Yellow Make Green” might appeal to children with visual or logical learning style. As for the way of “Books, Videos, DVDs”, I tried before and found it work for my children. Although DVDs have not yet been invented when […]

Imagine a scenario that we are late for work or children late for school in morning. Our adrenaline and blood pressure level would be boosted high enough to get us irritable. Or if we are caught in a traffic jam or have to line up in a long queue, we usually get impatient. To reduce […]

I totally agree with the words in Hara Estroff Marano’s article, How To Get Great Sleep, about trouble sleep:
“Everyone has a troubled night sometimes, or even a run of them, which happens to the average person about once a year. It’s part of being human, subject to stress and worry. ”
Children, like adults, would also […]

We’re so grateful that the condition of my husband’s eye has been under controlled and getting better and better. I hope that he’ll get full recovery as soon as possible. Although my daughter felt disappointed due to the decision of delay our trip, she is very understanding. We have done something to “compensate for her […]

In my previous post, A Treat For My Daughter, I mentioned that my husband and I would take our daughter on a trip for Hong Kong as a treat for her hard work over the past few years in high school. Our plan was originally scheduled to fly to Hong Kong tomorrow and celebrate Chinese […]