Whether young or old, we all love to play and we all need to do it regularly. Sadly, as we grow older, some of us have become too consumed with day-to-day errands and activities and do not get to play as much. Some of us might have even forgotten how to play. Having a...
Children are bound to tell lies at some point in their lives. While this may seem worrying for parents at first, you can rest assured that it is all part of the learning process that they go through during the growing up years. On top of that, it also doubles up as a teaching opportunity...
The early years are crucial for your child’s development. It is during this time that they learn about how the world around them works. Along with their new discoveries, they also learn a lot about their feelings and how to express them in the appropriate manner. In this article we share with you the 5...
An essential component in education and in life, curiosity drives us to learn new things and discover how things work around us. While there are various ways to stimulate our own curiosity, it is crucial that we encourage curiosity in our children while they’re young. In the words of one of the most famous intellectuals:...
As parents, we want our children to grow up to be happy and healthy, on top of teaching them the qualities of a successful person. While there is no set technique that is linked to raising successful children, research carried out by psychologists have shown that there are a few things parents of successful children...
There are many skills that our children are expected to learn and master in order to excel in today’s fast-changing world. In our bid to give them the best things in life, we do what we can to give them the foundation to these skills. At the same time, there are many life lessons that...
Amidst our duty to raise successful children, finding joy in parenting may pose as a challenge. As parents, our children are the centre of our universe and we take great joy in seeing them live in their happy moments. Apart from the effort we put in to raise them to be happy, well-adjusted individuals, psychologists...
Other than teaching our children how to be grateful in life, we explore an age-by-age guide to developing social skills for children. According to Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, as quoted by the Ministry of Education Singapore, the cognitive development theory viewed children as active, self-motivated and willing to learn. Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky in turn...
The values you impart in the early stages of your child’s life will help him/her grow up to be a self-confident, independent and successful adult. Up to the age of seven, children are like sponges, absorbing everything around them. This imprint period is the best and most important time to help them form values and...
Manners are not hard to come by, as long as we start inculcating them in our children when they are young. Just take the example of Japan, where it is reported that in Japanese schools, manners come before knowledge. It is generally known that the objective for the first years of school focuses not on...
