Entries from August 2008

6 Tips to Get Your Children to Eat Vegetables and Fruits

Date August 7, 2008

photo by khancafee
Eating healthy is very important regardless who you are.  All of us know the good of eating vegetables and fruits but face the problem that children refuse to eat vegetables and fruits.  Ashton refused to eat vegetables and fruits sometime back too. He seems to have an eye for vegetables.  He can picked [...]

Why Authoritative Parenting?

Date August 5, 2008

photo by livelyphoto
There is no denial that the parents and family play a big part in a toddler’s development.  With all the parenting methods that I have discussed in my previous post, authoritative parenting is the most successful approach to child rearing.  Let us go into details of being an authoritative parent.

NDP 08 Fever..

Date August 4, 2008

Singapore will be celebrating her 43rd birthday soon. But even before that, I have being watching the NDP 08 rehearsals for 4 weekends at the Esplanade and One Fullerton without fail.  Ashton and Ashlyn are crazy in love with the air stunts especially Ashton.  He will chatter non-stop dicussing and discribing to us what the [...]

What is Your Parenting Style?

Date August 2, 2008

photo by xieta
We all handle our children differently.  However, by the end of the day, we parents have only one goal in mind.  That is to give the best to our children and to guide them to our best ability so that they have the correct values to bring them through to adulthood.  Just what’s [...]

Parenting Recipe for the Week

Date August 1, 2008

I thought it would be good to have some kind of reminder to constantly reflect on ourselves and the way we parent our little ones.  Thus I have started this column with some words for reminders for parents like us.  This is for the first week…
” don’t let anger guide your actions, think before you [...]

10 Reasons Why Toddler Misbehave

Date August 1, 2008

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photo by katn77
Ashton has been throwing tantrums lately and it getting rather out of control. While the whole family were having breakfast yesterday, his sweet and loving demeanor morphs into some montrous behaviour.  He will start lying down on the ground in the public or sits in the middle of the carpark.  Yesterday, I even [...]