Little Day Out’s Bite-Sized Parenting series offers little nuggets of advice and tips from experts on a variety of parenting issues. It addresses different ages, from toddlers to tweens, and topics which are of concern to parents and families.
Bite-Sized Parenting
Bite-Sized Parenting: 5 Ways To Encourage Good Risk-Taking In Your Child
Do you find it difficult to introduce new activities and routines to your child? Is he or she averse to risk-taking?
Risk-taking is important for child development. When children are allowed to take risks, they...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Importance Of Having Family Meetings
Meetings are often reserved for the corporate setting, pictured in a boardroom where different colleagues sit together for a presentation or discussion. But meetings can also happen at a non-workplace setting – at home!...
Bite-Sized Parenting: 7 Ways To Encourage Open-Ended, Child-Led Play
Do you play with your child?
Do you think you play well with your child?
Jacinth from @Ourlittleplaynest provoked us with these questions as we attended her parenting workshop in “Roles of Parents In Supporting Children...
Bite-sized Parenting: 9 Children’s Books That Encourage Creativity, Out-Of-The-Box And Lateral Thinking
Being book smart and sticking to tried and tested formulas is not enough to progress in these days, creativity and lateral thinking skills are essential life skills. The pandemic has also shown that innovation...
Bite-sized Parenting: Parenting Styles And Why They Matter
Before there was ‘helicopter parenting’ and 'free-range parenting', there was 'Baumrind’s parenting styles'.
In the 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrind at University of California Berkeley carried out research into how different parenting styles can lead to...
Bite-Sized Parenting: How To Teach Children To Appreciate What They Have
It’s hard to be content. After all, we usually tend not to appreciate what we have until they are taken away from us. The current “Heightened Alert” phase is a grim reminder of the...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Managing Kids’ Screentime At Home
Hands up if you're a parent facing screentime battles with your child. Screentime is part and parcel of today's childhood. The reliance of screens is unprecedented with the advancement of technology, busier schedules and...
Bite-sized Parenting: 5 Tips On How To Motivate Your Unmotivated Child
“Motivate” in my dictionary almost means bribery. As a mum of two boys, I have found it challenging to motivate them to do the right things, their homework, revision, music practice. Honestly, I would...
Bite-sized Parenting: Teaching Children About Respect, Empathy, Prejudice And Privilege
The outrage over the death of George Floyd raised not just eyebrows but immense anger and caused destruction to many cities in America. While we might be far from America and enjoying harmony, we...
Bite-Sized Parenting: 4 Ways To Teach Children To Live With Less
In a highly urbanised environment, everything is shimmery as we pander to the desire to have more.
Do your children often ask for new toys? New books? New items?
Perhaps you gripe about their inability to...
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Vision Workbooks: Easy AI Self-Marking Of Assessment Books For Effective Home Learning
Parents, we know the reality: you navigate one of the world’s most rigorous education systems and finding the right resources to support your child’s learning is paramount.
This often means spending precious evenings painstakingly marking...
Letters To Paige Book Review
Reading another book by Ames Chen is yet another needful reflective exercise, Letters to Paige is about journeying through dyslexia through the eyes of Paige’s classmate who witnesses her struggles. Ames’s previous book Short...
Bite-Sized Parenting: 5 Parenting Books For Toddlers & The Preschooler Stage
Parents of two to six year olds – your patience might often be tested while your little ones challenge their boundaries. Is that usual? How do we manage the “terrible toddler” phase? We have...
Parent Review: BenQ MindDuo Eye-Care Study Table Lamp
My daughter will be taking her PSLE next year. With the expected increase in her workload, I worry about her eyes getting strained. To protect her eyesight, having a good task light is crucial....
Bugaboo Butterfly Review: We Check Out The Travel-Friendly City Stroller
Newly-minted parents looking for strollers might want to check out the all new Bugaboo Butterfly – a one-second fold city stroller. As its name suggests, the new Bugaboo Butterfly is a lightweight, single-hand collapsible...
