The blog has been really quiet recently, because I’ve been super busy with all three kids. N is in K2 now, and has homework (!), Show and...

Didi and Meimei turn ONE today, and I must say that it’s been quite a challenge getting them to sit and read with me. It was much easier...

We’ve been attending church here in Jakarta for a while now, and the best part of it is that N absolutely loves going for Sunday School...

N has been learning to read in school, so we introduced some simple readers at home, to give him a bit more practice. To be honest, I...

Some time back, when we were trying to find ways to get N interested in Chinese, C did some research online and came across Chineasy. He...

I introduced the Letterland books and characters to N when he was about a year old, but it was only recently that he started being really...

We’re taking a week’s break from our local authors Friday Flips series because it’s Father’s Day this Sunday, and one of the Taro Gomi...

We were recently approached by Toddle to check out their online store, and I was impressed by the wide range of items they carry. They...

I first saw copies of local author Phua San San’s “What’s Inside the Red Box” at Popular Bookstore, and was intrigued by it, because I...

We have been following the Squirky series since the first book, and after each book, Noah will ask me for the next one, as he wants to...

As a preschooler, Noah doesn’t get any pocket money, though he likes asking us (and his grandparents) for money, so that he can put them...

We really enjoy the Squirky series of books, and the latest Squirky adventure, ‘How Do You Get to the Garden Galaxy?’ is no exception. In...

We recently received some lovely books from Epigram Books, and Noah was really thrilled to have more new books to read. So glad that he’s...

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop’s Fables, and is the inspiration for the idiom, “to cry wolf”, ie to give a false alarm. I...

Noah is a fan of sensory play, and I try to give him a variety of sensory bins to play with, whenever possible. (What are sensory bins,...

Noah likes animals quite a bit, and frequently picks out books about animals to read. I try to get him books about a variety of animals,...

Apart from vehicles, Noah is also interested in animals of all sorts. His “best friend” is a white tiger soft toy, and he also loves his...

When Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away in March this year, I wrote about my thoughts on his legacy in this post, and we talked to Noah about...

As Singaporeans, we are all expected to be effectively bilingual, but that is definitely something which many of us struggle with. In our...

Over the June holidays, I had grand plans to bring Noah to the various museums in Singapore, since there were so many interesting...