Are you experiencing the Baby Blues?
Having a baby is a blessing and a joy, but there are some mothers experience sadness right after the baby comes. What reason is there to be sad? How to make yourself feel better?
Children Health Emergencies
Cut lip or a nasty bruise on your child’s forehead is a horrific sight. It’s important to know when you should bring your child to the ER or when you can treat it yourself. Here’s a quick guide that can help you handle health emergencies.
Raising Your Child to be Confident
As we know, no matter how often and how much we tell our child that they are “great” and “awesome” it takes more than that to grow their confidence. A child needs to achieve and through these achievements do their sense of competence grow.
Tips for Raising Healthy Eaters
How do you raise a healthy eater without forcing your kid to eat their greens? Can your child grow up to be a healthy eater throughout his lifetime? With these easy tips, you can boost his chances of staying healthy, healthy, healthy!
Creating a Literate Home
To create the love for reading in your children, follow these simple tips. Remember, it is always great to have a good role model too.
How to help your child deal with disappointments
Disappointments are a part of life. Use these situations as learning experiences. Teach your child how to ask for support, communicate better and stay optimistic. Help make it easier for them to handle any curve balls that life may throw at them.
Migration – Better Future for Your Children?
Many Malaysian families are either sending their kids to boarding schools or migrating themselves for a better future. There are obviously many pros and cons to this decision. Is it all worth it?
Tips on Bully-Proofing Your Child
Bullies can indeed make your child’s life a “living hell”. Schoolwork is often affected and the kid sometimes becomes withdrawn and depressed.So how do you help prevent your child from being a target?
How to Teach Your Child About Strangers
How do you tell your child which stranger is nice and which is bad? How do you teach them to be wary of strangers but yet not to be scared of everyone? Teach your child about strangers the effective way with these tips.
Juggling Priorities and Effective Parenting
How does a parent juggle priorities to keep the family going while being an effective parent at the same time? What may seem like an impossible task to do, juggling priorities and being able to parent effectively is not as hard as it sounds.
Schools for Special Needs Children in Malaysia
We now have several types of education systems in Malaysia, all harmoniously living under the same roof. The one type of school that is still lacking in many ways is schools for special needs children.
Where Did Grandpa Go?
Children will experience losing something important at some points of their life. It could be a lost toy or maybe something more traumatic like the death of a loved one. Let's look at how we can guide them on coping with death.
Creating learning opportunities at home
Young children are natural mathematicians and scientists because of their desire to explore, experiment and their natural curiosity. Here are things you can do with your pre-schooler at home to increase his learning experience.
Teach Your Children to Respect Other Religions
Teaching your child to respect other religions as well as the people of other faiths can be key in upholding the peace and harmony of the community and country alike. So how do you talk about this sensitive subject without being prejudiced yourself?
My Six-year old: Public School OR International School?
The education system in this country has taken so many twists and turns that parents are seriously re-thinking the options -- do we continue to trust the Education Ministry or do we now turn to the private educators?
3 Ways to Increase Enrolment for Your School
Increasing enrolment in schools isn't hard. Check out three easy tips that you can start using today to acquire more students.
What’s Malaysia Day, Mummy?
I thought I knew all about our country’s history…until my 5-year old asked me! Sharing with you my eye-opening discovery about Malaysia Day.
Different Teaching Methods in Malaysian Pre-Schools
Teaching methods have changed tremendously with pre-schools offering various different curriculums for parents of today to pick from. Let’s look at some of the teaching methodologies available in Malaysian pre-schools.
Tuitions – Are they Really Necessary?
One reason many parents had for sending their 7-year olds for tuitions is because these classes would give them the necessary revision of what is being done in school. My question is, would you not want your child to revise his lessons on his own?
