Every year, we try to take a family vacation. But as the family size has grown, it has become more challenging to do so. The venue we choose needs to fulfill certain criteria such as : 1. be a destination that has wide range of activities that can cater to both teens and pre-schoolers. 2. […] Read more…
Homeschooling will not save your child
What I am about to say may offend those who are super pro-homeschooling 🙂 So I will say upfront that I am not militant about homeschooling. It has many benefits. But like anything in life, it has its pros and cons. And therefore, whether one homeschools or not is a choice every family has to […] Read more…
Why Swimming is a Non-Negotiable in Our Family
Swimming is non-negotiable in our family. It is a skill that we have decided the children must learn. Why? In a nutshell, it is a safety issue. In a large family with many young children, we cannot keep an eye on all of them all of the time whenever we are at the swimming pool. But why do we need to go to the pool you may ask? Read more…
Staying on Top of Clutter
I cannot stand clutter and therefore am always de-cluttering. And I am ruthless. Toys that are not played with after a few months are first put away and then passed on to another family or donated to the Salvation Army if still not played with when brought out. Clutter makes me feel antsy, trapped, messy. Read more…
New Year, New Beginnings
No, there are no New Year Resolution posts this time. But with the new year, there are new adventures. And as the saying goes, “Change is the only constant in life”. Some of you may have already known or heard that my dear husband has stepped down as deputy senior pastor of Covenant Vision Christian […] Read more…
Yours, Mine or Ours?
No, I am not referring to blended families that are sadly more and more common these days. I am referring to TOYS! Since Christmas just passed us by, I am sure many families were gifted with many toys and I thought this would be an appropriate time to share how we deal with toys. How […] Read more…
When asked about discipline
I’ve always said right in the beginning that Discipline is a very sensitive subject. So whenever I am asked about what we do and use as disciplinary methods/tools. I always hesitate to share especially if I know the parents are young, educated and all into attachment parenting which most modern parents are 😉 Why? Because we spank. […] Read more…
Gluten (and grains) really isn’t that great for us
Yes, that is the takeway for me after listening to a 8-day eSummit called The Gluten Summit put together by Dr Tom O’Bryan and his team. He gathered 29 different speakers, each a leader in his/her own field of specialty (including cardiologists, neurologists, nutritionists) to educate the general public and healthcare practitioners not just about celiac disease […] Read more…
Who determines what is beautiful?
Covered in the Straits Times recently was a syndicated newspaper article from NY Times about the number of Venezuelan women who undergo plastic surgery to change the way they look in order to look beautiful. And then closely following that was a syndicated AFP report on the increasing numbers of teen girls and women having genital cosmetic surgery […] Read more…
Keeping it real
It is easy to present a front when we are writing our blogs or when we are on social media because we usually only post the high points of our lives and the pictures where we look good 😛 Sure there are some who gripe all the time but those are rare in a society […] Read more…