Children in this century are used to getting everything now. These are the days of noodle meals, microwave oven, washing machine, cut vegetables and dressed chicken right from the market, instant poundo, GMOs, chauffer drive to the neighbours, Professor Google, fast internet, fast cars, instant gratification etc. In as much as some of these advancement…
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This is a throwback post on practical steps you can take to make your child tell you more. In today’s living, it has become unquestionably easy to spend time with your family and not talk at all. Many parents and kids are often attached to TVs, cell phones, iPads, iPods etc so much that, even…
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A very embarrassing moment happened to me whilst my friend was visiting. My toddler son spilled his drink on the floor tiles and I was just about to yell, when my 5yrs old daughter patted my shoulder and said to me, mum Don’t yell! Here is the mop. Just clean it up, don’t yell! I…
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Is this terribly wrong? Or simply overreaction from my spouse? Dear Guided Beginnings fam, My husband is an exemplary and responsible father who doesn’t hesitate to go to any legal length to make his family happy, however, behind all his good intentions and action, I have the feeling that he overreacts and act old school-ish…
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It’s been several decades ago the world experienced a pandemic. Amidst the trending Corona virus pandemic, there are indeed great lessons. Surely the virus came bearing the good, the bad and the ugly! Now worldwide, parents are compelled to be at home with their children. No outside or alternative schedule than that of the core…
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She picked up a copy of the prayer book. She flipped through till she got to the portion of the morning devotions. I quickly recognized the act. It’s a kind of manipulation. One of the unfortunate parts of parenting is that we cannot give our children everything they want. For instance, it’s part of the…
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I simply said no angry words. Rather, I gave her the privilege to choose where in the entire house she would like to use as her pretense school. She chose my room. I brought out some learning resources and gave her activities to engage her. It was back to back. She didn’t really like it.…
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Mrs IB and I car pooled. She was a teacher in my older children’s school while her children attended the same school with my younger children. So when she dropped her children to join mine on the ride to school, she picked my older ones since they schooled in the school where she was a…
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