Futureproof Parenting

28/04/2020

Mental Wellness during Covid-19. Free resource sheets.

19/04/2020

Two weeks into Home Based Learning, what are we 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…

06/03/2020

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

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…

26/02/2020

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…

22/02/2020

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.…

19/02/2020

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…

19/02/2020

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…

19/02/2020

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…

19/02/2020

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 …

19/02/2020

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…

05/02/2020

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…