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Two weeks into Home Based Learning, what are we learning?

Three Things to Learn from Home Based Learning Lately, my social media feeds have been buzzing with discussions among my parenting friends, scattered across the world. The topic is how to keep cooped up kids emotionally secure, adequately occup…

One digital device per child by 2028. How should parents respond?

Three Top Tips for Raising Digital Natives The Singapore government has just announced its intention to facilitate and fund a one digital device per child policy for all secondary level students by 2028. This is clearly an excellent idea in…

The Trouble with Cot Bumpers It’s fashionable these days to fret over how to build ‘resilience’ in our youth. The media is full of articles about ‘grit’, the drive to thrive in adversity and keep going toward a hard-earned goa…

The Image World Yesterday, at our local park, I noticed a pair of tween girls ‘hanging out’ on a bench. But they weren’t taking in the scenery, chatting or even scrolling through the latest gossip on their phones.…

Outside the box? My husband recently shared with me a marvellous series of thought-provoking cartoons in the ‘Savage Chickens’ series, among them the above reflection on ‘thinking outside the box’. (He got this one…

Keep Calm and Carry On What does it take for a nation to be resilient in the face of shocks like the so-called Wuhan virus (novel Corona virus 2019)? This is perhaps a question on many minds as an uncertain and developin…

Tin Can Children As a child, I once played a minor role in a musical about ‘Conrad, the factory made boy’. Based on a children’s novel by Christine Nostlinger, it told the story of a ‘perfect’ child, Conrad, manufa…

The Power of Masks Last weekend, I volunteered at a children’s camp in which one of the activities was mask-painting. To model participation, I duly produced a (hopefully) classic Venetian style navy blue, white and …

Art Therapy Recently, I had the opportunity to attend an Art Therapy workshop by a trainer from LaSalle College of the Arts, my first experience of this field. We grabbed crayons, coloured pencils and water co…

Preparing Our Children For Life-Long Learning In a recent high profile interview, education minister Ong Ye Kung helpfully grounded future post-secondary education policy in the concept of ‘avoiding front-loading’. The idea of completing a lon…