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Worried Your Child Isn’t Fulfilling Their Potential? Don’t Make These 7 Mistakes
Are you worried that your child is not fulfilling their potential? Or might you be making mistakes in your attitude to your child’s development when they are not succeeding academically? As the parent...
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Can You Choose Your Child’s Gender? A Mother’s Long Transition
Can you choose your child’s gender? We thought we did, as young expat parents in Hong Kong. But life had other plans. Just as our boy became a man, we lost him. The day we finally let him go, my...
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How Do You Talk to Kids About Sex in an Age Appropriate Way?
Yikes! How do you chat to kids about the birds and the bees? When should you start? Do you wait until they ask questions, or broach the topic before? Here’s our age by age guide on sex education for...
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Are The Kids REALLY Okay? 5 Tips To Get Kids and Teens Talking About Their...
Whether your kids are feeling anxious, stressed or have any other ‘big’ feelings, it helps to know what to look for and how to talk about mental health so that kids can deal with life’s ups and downs...
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Self-Harm: Would You Know What Signs To Look For In Your Child?
1st March is Self Harm Awareness Day/Self Injury Awareness Day. If your child is self-harming, knowing the warning signs can help you support your child or teen to get them the help they need It’s not...
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Don’t Ask “How Was Your Day?”: 24 Better Questions to Ask Kids After School
You pick up your kids from school and you just can’t help it. “How was your day?” you ask. Most common response? “Fine”. Sound familiar? Here’s how you can have better conversations with your kid after...
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“Why are you not Chinese like me and Daddy? You’re not one of us”
When my son said “Why are you not Chinese like me and daddy? You’re not one of us.” It made me reflect on being married to a Singaporean Chinese and how I could better teach my kids about their dual...
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Is Your Child Constantly Distracted? 5 Tips To Help Kids Focus
How can you encourage your kids to concentrate so that they can learn better and find their flow? Did you know that playing with slime or clay, and doing daily exercise could help? Read on for more...
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Are You The ‘Fun’ Parent? Or The One Who Says “No” To Everything?
YES day? No way! “It’s called parenting!” says Jennifer Garner in the new ‘Yes Day’ movie out on Netflix, in response to being accused of being too strict with her kids and having too many rules. Yes,...
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How Safe Can Instagram Really Be for Kids?
Instagram recently announced a slew of new updates focused on keeping teens safe on the platform. Here’s what to know Whether you love it or hate it, we all know everyone’s on Instagram. It’s a fun...
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Parental Resources for Kids’ Internet Safety, Screen Time, & Social Media
Here is where you’ll find resources on screen time, internet safety for kids, media literacy, what to know about kids using social media, and more! Parenting kids in the digital age comes with so many...
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I Regret Giving My 10-Yr-Old a Phone: Devices Should Come with a Warning for...
Does your kid want a mobile phone, smartwatch or their own iPad? One mother discusses the danger of giving kids access to devices too early and why she thinks they should come with a health warning!...
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My Son Was Cyberbullied and Ostracised: Here’s What I Wish We Both Knew...
The constraints of the pandemic and home-based learning have pushed tweens to socialise online more than ever before. During the lockdown, my son’s social scene centred around gaming until he was...
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Why You Shouldn’t Compliment Your Kids on Their Appearance (and What to Say...
Minimise appearance-based compliments to avoid your child feeling their self-worth is centred on how they look Tell a little girl that she’s pretty or a little boy that he’s handsome and their faces...
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I Have Mum Guilt About PSLE… And My Kids Aren’t Even in Primary School Yet
My husband says we don’t need another banker or lawyer. What we need are more social workers, pastors and teachers. Having worked in the financial sector for over a decade, I can see where he’s coming...
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Worried About Kids and Smartphones? One Mama Installed a Landline for her...
Worried about giving your child a smartphone (and with it, access to the internet, social media, texting and more?) Could getting a landline be the answer? One mama investigates with her tween!...
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How to Talk to Kids About Scary News
Counsellors from schools across Singapore share tips on how to talk to kids about scary news in a reassuring and age-appropriate manner The scary news cycle these days seems to be on overdrive: from...
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15 Best Middle Grade and Young Adult Books for Tweens and Teens
Looking for new reads for your tween that aren’t Harry Potter (though we do love that series)? Check out our list of exciting middle grade and young adult books that’ll keep your kid glued to their...
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PSLE Advice from Mamas Who’ve Been There, Done That (and Why You Shouldn’t...
P6 students start the PSLE on 12 August, and PSLE results will come out in mid-November. A primary school mama wonders whether she’s choosing the right path – and shares advice from mamas who’ve...
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Wondering How to Teach Your Child Life Skills That Go Beyond Academic...
Here’s how Game Plan Coaching is equipping children with life skills that propel them towards academic success and lifelong fulfilment In the classroom, children are often focused on mastering the...
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