My Curious Child

The mindset towards learning maths
should be less about getting good grades,
but more about discovering a real-life tool that we can use in everyday moments!

🩷 And this is the heart behind 🩷  
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

Storybooks and Play-based Activities designed to:

✅ Spark Curiosity and Conversation
✅ Make Learning Playful and Screen-free
✅ Build Positive Parent-Child Connection 

💛 Because meaningful learning always starts with a deep connection and understanding of how it's truly relevant to our lives!

Check out our play-based learning resources at www.mycuriouschild.net (link in bio)
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🚨 If you're just starting out on your home learning journey, we've got you. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Comment "ME" and we'll send you a link to download our Free Parent's Guide for Maths Home Learning (3-7yo) to help you create family connection that is filled with magical learning moments in between!

Has it been an easy experience publishing our own children books?

Definitely not lol.

I still remember heart dropping moments when we faced problems with our stocks, be it delays after delays, problems with suppliers, or worse, printing errors! 🤯😫

We've made sooo many mistakes along the way.
Learned everything from scratch. New softwares, new platforms, new SOPs. Everything.

But grew so much.

Not just in the works of running a business.

We grew stronger in our conviction that,

✨ there is a way to bridge play and the academics, it doesn't have to be either or

✨ there is a way to build beautiful bonds with our children even while learning academics, it doesn't have to be stressful or straining

✨ there is a way to nurture a love for learning even within a competitive education system that we can't seem to fight off, we just have to change the culture in our home!

Yet, it's only just the beginning.

And I can't wait to see what else this adventure has in stored for us and the families that are a part of our journey ❤️🩷🎉

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Hello, we're Jiamin and Daphne, and we're the parent educators and creators of

🩷 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 🩷

Storybooks and Play-based Activities designed to:

✅ Spark Curiosity and Conversation
✅ Make Learning Playful and Screen-free
✅ Build Positive Parent-Child Connection

💛 Because joyful learning always starts with loving connection

Check out our play-based learning resources at www.mycuriouschild.net (link in bio)

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🚨 If you're just starting out on your home learning journey, we've got you. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Comment "ME" and we'll send you a link to download our Free Parent's Guide for Maths Home Learning (3-7yo) to help you create family connection that is filled with magical learning moments in between!

Hosting my first LIVE.

A session for parents,
by a parent,
and from a parent perspective.

Click link in bio to set a reminder to join me next Thurs night.

DM me if you have any questions you'd like me to address so that I can have a think beforehand and answer you to my best abilities.

Will try to keep it within an hour. Hopefully lol.

See you!

🩷 Jiamin

After years of homeschooling, Daphne and I knew exactly what kind of resource we wanted for our kids.
Stories with real maths woven naturally into them, characters that children would genuinely care about, and conversations built in for parents who wanted to go deeper with their kids.
The problem was that everything we found was either too dry and academic, or too playful with nothing of real substance underneath it.
Nothing sat in the middle in the way we knew it needed to.

So we decided...to make it ourselves!!!!
No publishing background,
no idea whether anyone else would even want it.

Just six years of being deep in the trenches of home education,
a very clear sense of the kind of education we hope for our children to experience,
and some ideas of what actually worked for our children and what didn't.

We've now sold over 5,000 books. 🤯
We're in Singapore's National Library. 🥹
We're endorsed by A. Prof Darren, co-author of the MOE Maths Textbooks. 🥰
We've also been shortlisted as a finalist for Best Educational Supplement at the Singapore Book Awards 2025! 🙌🏻

BUT the moment that still gets me, honestly, more than any of that,

is when a parent messages to say their child knows our Curious Little Critter characters by heart and keeps asking for more.

THAT'S the thing that started all of this, and it's still the thing that matters most. 🩷🩷🩷

🩷 We proudly present our original collection 🩷
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

Storybooks and Play-based Activities designed to:

✅ Spark Curiosity and Conversation�
✅ Make Learning Playful and Screen-free�
✅ Build Positive Parent-Child Connection

✨ Because when children see the meaning behind the learning, they truly learn better!

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Check out our play-based learning resources at www.mycuriouschild.net (link in bio)

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🚨 If you're just starting out on your home learning journey, we've got you. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Comment "ME" and we'll send you a link to download our Free Parent's Guide for Maths Home Learning (3-7yo) to help you create family connection that is filled with magical learning moments in between!

When learning looks like play, little minds open right up!

Today’s “maths lesson” was really just crafting an origami coin bank and dropping pretend coins inside.

But in that simple moment, so much learning was happening:
🧮 Counting + one-to-one correspondence
Each coin dropped = one number spoken. Maths becomes something they can see and feel.

📏 Understanding quantities + value
They start noticing: more coins means a “fuller” box. That’s the beginning of number sense.

🧠 Problem-solving + patience
Folding. Refolding. Trying again. Tiny hands learning that mistakes are part of the journey.

And because they built the box themselves, there’s a sense of ownership.

Maths suddenly isn’t found in a typical worksheet… it’s found in their creation!! ✨

This is also why we have created Curious Little Critters Maths Adventures

where children can discover Maths through
🤍 Imaginative stories weaved with social-emotional learning
🤍 Meaningful family conversations via question prompts
🤍 Playful crafts and games
🤍 Screen-free moments of family connection

If this resonates with you, comment "MATHS" and receive a special 10% off promocode that can be used at checkout!

Because we must remember, the goal isn’t just to “teach maths”...

It’s to help our children see the world as something they can explore, question, build, and understand!! 💫

(And yes… this little coin bank is now their proudest possession 🥹)

Something shifted in how I thought about maths education after about six years of homeschooling my (then) preschool kids, and I haven't been able to unsee it since.

Academic learning and character development don't happen in separate boxes, one after the other. they happen at the same time, woven together, in the same moment.

When a child figures out how to split something equally between siblings, they're not just practising fractions. they're also learning what fairness feels like and why it matters to get it right.

When they sit with a problem that isn't clicking yet and choose to keep going anyway, that's not just numeracy being built, that's resilience quietly taking shape.

And when they finally get there and feel proud of the process rather than just the answer, a growth mindset isn't something you've taught them. it's something they've lived.

For a long time I made the same mistake I see a lot of parents make, which was treating the academic and the emotional as two separate conversations.

I thought the feelings could wait until after the learning was done. But children don't experience it that way. To them, it's all one thing. And once I really understood that, it changed everything about how I approached our days at home together.

🩷 And this is the heart behind 🩷
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

Storybooks and Play-based Activities designed to:

✅ Support Maths AND Social Emotional Learning all at the same time

✅ Spark Curiosity and Conversations

✅ Make Learning Playful and Screen-free

✅ Build Positive Parent-Child Connection

💛 Because every learning moment that happens is multi-faceted and purposeful in its own ways

Check out our play-based learning resources at www.mycuriouschild.net (link in bio)

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🚨 If you're just starting out on your home learning journey, we've got you. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Comment "ME" and we'll send you a link to download our Free Parent's Guide for Maths Home Learning (3-7yo) to help you create family connection that is filled with magical learning moments in between!

Someone said this to us recently and it made me pause.
“You know… your kids look happier.”

Nothing about routines or schedules had changed.
The only thing we did differently was how learning showed up at home.

We stopped forcing our way through boring worksheets and started leaning into
✨ Play
✨ Stories
✨ Games.

Talking things through together.
Learning stopped feeling like a chore and started feeling like something we shared.

What worked for us:
• Swap worksheets for playful activities whenever possible
• Focus on understanding, not finishing
• Keep learning short, light, and connected

The funny thing is, learning didn’t just feel better...
It worked better too!!!

Happier kids. Less resistance. More curiosity!

And this is also WHY we've created Curious Little Critters Maths Adventures -

Where you and your little one can engage in,
✅ Fun Stories with Maths + Social-emotional learning
✅ Meaningful conversations with question prompts
✅ Low Prep Hands-on activities and games
✅ Screen-free family bonding

Comment ‘PLAY’ and you'll receive a special 10% off promocode that can be used at checkout!

Sometimes the biggest change isn’t what we teach, but how we teach it 🤍