Category Archive:   Parenting


Our recent reading is Pamela Allen’s “Are your grandmother a gonna?” and “Grandpa and Thomas and the green Umbrella”. V seems never get enough of them, especially the Thomas series. Now she can pretty much recite the grandma story herself. She could say “Chuffa…chuffa…chuffa…”, then “Thoo Thoo…off they went”, which is so cute. When we [...]

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Do you play tricks with your children to make them believe that the world is in their control rather than others? It’s like a lie with good intention. My husband is a master of this. The very recent trick that my husband is playing with Vivian is to make her believe that she can put [...]

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Vivian has been whinging about going to the playground since the morning. She has a little book which has a picture of swings, she pointed to us and said ” 秋千"in a way that only us can figure out. We had a couple of other things on our schedule today, plus any time between 10am [...]

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Another rainy day to stay at home with a sick little person. There is always a question coming up around this kind of occasion, “how to engage an one and half years old indoor for a long, dull and only-mummy-there day?” I don’t know about other parents, honestly it has never been easy to me. [...]

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Vivian recently explored a new game, it’s called “waking up during the night and PLAY”. Last night she decided to play this game at 11:30pm after about 3 hours sleep. Her eyes were wide open, she hit the cot with her hands, grabbed the bars to pull herself up. She practiced crunches and finally rolled [...]

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I believe that babies can see things that adults can’t see. Yes, I might have seen too many Hollywood movies, such as The City Of Angels. Well, I know it sounds a little spooky,but how can you explain why young babies smile at the ceiling where is completely blank, or talk totally towards the air? [...]

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