Wisdom of the crowd
As part of Samuel’s current cycle for Royal Ranger (Outpost 19), the whole family went for an outing to the LTA Transport Gallery. It was a really cool place. This is a mock...
Forum Letter – Family bonding hit by weekend schoolwork
The Straits Times Forum 26 Mar 2012 THE Government introduced the five-day work week in 2004 to improve work-life balance and provide a more relaxed environment for parent-child bonding on...
Forum Letter – Spending time with family builds character
The Straits Times Forum 26 Mar 2012 MY FATHER, who has since passed on, worked long hours to support my large and extended family. Yet his core character values were...
Will we find each other in heaven?
Tonight Elkan asked me whether we would find each other in heaven. He said:”There are so many people in heaven, are you sure we will be able to find each other?”,...
Sharing beauty
I love borrowing Chinese story books. This is because many of them are award-winning books with beautiful illustrations, touching story lines and excellent in teaching basic virtues. These books were...
Teachers – you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them
One of the most important and most difficult relationship a parent will ever have with anyone in the child’s life (before the daughter/son-in-laws….) is that with his/her child’s teacher. To...
Fathers – Protect, Provide and Present
Recently I borrowed a book for Samuel, on a Seahorse father, and other fathers he met while he was carrying his babies. I must have known it, but reading the...
Thank you mummy for giving me music
Elias with Mei and her GOLD flute! A few days ago, Elias and I attended a concert by Mei, his new flute teacher. She played with the Braddell Heights Symphony...
Father and Child Camp 2011
This time, the difference is that this is not a church retreat – this was a father and children camp which was held in the Kota Tinggi Kota Rainforest Resort....
The village
Introduction ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ is an African quote made popular by Hilary Clinton who wrote a book by that name. In her book, she said...
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