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Cliques and Ostracism in School
18 January 2012, 10:52 am

My girl is 10 years old. Yesterday she told me that she was shown a “set of rules” by a classmate. You must follow these rules or I won’t be your friend. The rules include… must have facebook account must be Chinese My Goodness! What sort of rule […]

Communicating with Children
16 January 2012, 8:52 am

Kids, especially young kids communicated differently from us adults. Sometimes they find it hard to verbalize how they feel. In this case, you have to find other ways to try to understand on they feel. For a younger child, perhaps you could give them a pi […]

Popular Chinese New Year Songs
13 January 2012, 9:42 am

Since Chinese New Year is just round the corner, here are a few Popular Chinese New Year Songs to get everyone in the mood. These were listed on YouTube as Chinese New Year Songs 2012 but they are actually evergreen and very popular Chinese New Year songs […]

Threaded Commenting is now available for Blogger Blogs
12 January 2012, 11:41 am

Threaded Commenting is now available for Blogger Blogs and my blog has a new look because of that. Yes, I'm crazy like that. Changed my look just to get threaded commenting up and running.I was still using the old Blogger because I did not want to go thro […]

Dealing with a preteen or tween
10 January 2012, 7:42 am

  My preteen or tween as they call it, the ages before turning into a full fledged teenager or teen has been driving me crazy. Kids these days do grow up really fast. My preteen at home is showing signs of growing into a teen fast! Dealing with a p […]

Standard 4 workload
6 January 2012, 7:57 am

My girl is in Standard 4 this year. She’s got a brand new school bag to carry her books to and from school. She used her old one for three years. Not bad considering the weight it had to carry and the way she dragged it up and down the stairs. Bumpity. […]