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11 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
Someone asked this question on r/askSingapore and I wrote a long and considered response as featured below. Cheers to all long-time suffering parents! — First, I will like to calm your nerves by bringing up the Chinese proverb “家家有本难念的经” (Ev...
27 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment stbrians
Schools need identification of your child's school items. Quite a fantastic gesture to curb theft of items. Some use admission numbers. We write them inside their clothes or outside for all and sundry to see. Some hide them in the inside of the cloth...
4 May 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Wiseinvestor
Being a Parent is not the easiest thing in the World, but if you have children don't give up on them. The conversation started when Reddit user u/SniperGlizzy posted a viral thread asking, "What is it like to have children you don’t want?"...
1 Mar 2023 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Ahhh... that horrific money sink that is known as the Agricultural or Royal show. Anyway, it is still a nice day out for the family... even if I have to remind the kids that they can't do the showbags or the rides until we have looked at the var...
23 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments RevolverOcelotYt
Introduction Divorce among married parents has become an increasingly common occurrence in the United States since the 1960s, with more than half of all marriages ending in divorce today. As a result, many children will find themselves bein...
7 Oct 2022 3 minute read 4 comments bengy
This has taken quite a long time to get moving... I had hoped to have this done about half a year ago, but moving country and settling down in a new home and country, plus the regular business of working and all of that stuff... well, it puts a...
14 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
A great thing about being a newly appointed literacy coach is that it converges my professional and personal lives. This week, I determined that a student had sufficient exposure to the three sounds of ‘y’ and decided to move on to the digraph ‘-oy’....
9 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
10 Things I Learnt About Parenting Parenting has trained me to go with my gut. Shit happens (sometimes literally), and I react before I even completely think about it. Sometimes, I’m amazed at how my instinct prevents a full-blown tantrum. No shit a...
5 Jul 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Best friends. This change began in the three years after our separation, the beginning of his hatred of her, a clash of personalities which increased every year as his character developed and solidified. He was like me, loved my company and...
27 Jun 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
I've never really been very handy... I have a mind that sort of likes the abstract, but when I aim to put those nebulous concepts into the real-world... well, the results are often not what I expect. However, over the time in the Netherlands whe...
