The World @ My Fingertips

My kids goes to a Chinese school and comes home everyday with a tonne of homework. Most of them writing, like copying sentences and paragraphs from text books, or newspaper cuttings. I’ve often heard parents complain about the amount of homework their kids have to slave upon each day. Well, that’s just part and parcel [...]

It’s the long school holidays. Do you all still read the year’s school books with your kids during the holidays? I still do. I prefer to not break the rhythm. My 7 year old kid brought his school text books for next year back with him last month. I’ve also enrolled him for holiday classes [...]

Many people ask me why i dont send my kids to the kindy behind my house since it’s so convenient to just walk them over through the kitchen entrance. Well, to be honest with you, the quality of the teachers there sucks; big time. I’m not the kiasu kinda of parent who only wants to [...]

My kids are getting more and more interested in reading books these days. Oh, this is also partly because i have banned all the PSP, NDS, WII, tv, dvd and pc from the room leaving them with no more other form of entertainment other than books. Well, knowledge is like gold, and if i dont [...]

Being a parent who doesnt read much Chinese, i have difficulty when it comes to helping my kid with his Chinese homework. He goes to a Chinese school and each day, there’s bound to be a lot of Chinese homework. I know the meanings of most of the words, but cannot pronounce some of them [...]

Many people keep telling me take my kid out of Chinese School. Their reason given is they feel that he can cope better if he has one language lesser to learn. The thing is, they dont understand that it’s not whether he attends a Chinese School or Vernacular School. The teachers at our Public Schools [...]

About time i get the kids to bed. It’s almost 10pm. Gotta wake up on time to send Gordon off to his tutor’s by 9am. The school holidays will be over in the blink of an eye. I dont want him to stay home and play all days long. It’s gonna be difficult to get [...]

Trying to get Gordon to do his homework on his own is not an easy task. As he grows up, his attention span becomes lesser. He gets distracted easily. I have to make sure his surroundings is quiet and Malcolm is not around to disturb him. For a six year old, he has quite a [...]

One of the areas i feel i’m not doing enough is spending time coaching my kid with his homework. I tend to help him along rather than let him try finishing his homework by himself. I know i’m busy and hard-pressed for time but in the long run, my kid will lag behind with his [...]