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Parenting Woes #2

7 Sep 2023 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.18

Parenting woes #2 I haven’t been a father for long but I have pro tips to dispense to young parents. Number 1: when your child is sick, make sure you call the paediatrician the day/night before to make sure that his/her clinic will be open the next d...

Parenting woes #1

6 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei $0.08

Parenting woes #1 There are some truths you don’t figure out unless you become a parent. Here’s one: my child has an uncanny ability to fall sick during my holidays. Yes, I know I’m a teacher and enjoy more protected time than other professions and s...

Random reflections about my boy and crypto

4 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.26

I have high hopes that my boy will climb the corporate ladder in the future. While mopping the floor, he opened the sliding door to the kitchen and mopped a bit of the kitchen floor, thus literally showing his largest stakeholder aka his mum how visi...

To have kids or be childless, that is the question

11 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei $0.04

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...

A Word To Parents

27 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment stbrians $0.06

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...

10 Individuals' Real Life Regrets of Having Children

4 May 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Wiseinvestor $0.03

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?"...

Growing Up, Getting Older

1 Mar 2023 3 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.06

  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...

Parental Divorce: The Shocking Truth About What It Does To Children

23 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments RevolverOcelotYt $0.06

  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...

Setting up Laptops for the Kids...

7 Oct 2022 3 minute read 4 comments bengy $0.07

  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...

Teaching My Son Phonics #2

14 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.07

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’....