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.
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Bite-Sized Parenting: 5 Ways To Encourage Our Children To Give More And Receive Less
The season of gifting is here again. Before we get carried away with more buying and gifting and letting the consumerist aspect of the festivities distract us, perhaps we can encourage our children to...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Encouraging The Growth Mindset In Our Children
“I can’t do this.” “It’s too hard!” “Can we not have exams?”
Do these laments sound familiar?
After the recent mid-year examinations accompanied by a whole lot of tears, whining, complaining, I wonder if our children...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Encouraging Good Work Ethic In Our Children
Part of parenting involves helping our children with their perennial problems and flaws, on top of our own flaws. One area that is a constant work-in-progress is developing work ethic in our children (and...
Bite Sized Parenting: Helping Your Child Get Over The Back-To-School Blues
Is your child reluctant to go to school after the holidays? Or is your child unwilling to start on Home Based Learning, whining at the amount of work to do?
Getting back to the school...
Bite-sized Parenting: Preparing Your Child For Preschool or Kindergarten (And Yourself Too)!
Going to school for the very first time can be a nerve-wrecking experience, particularly for preschoolers who have never been to school. Sometimes, routines, new faces, strange adults, unfamiliar environments can be very overwhelming....
Bite-Sized Parenting: The Encouragement Sandwich
The Ministry of Education's new parenting Instagram page recently shared an idea which we thought was useful advice for parents. It was about how to serve your child an "Encouragement Sandwich".
When Things Aren’t Going...
Bite-Sized Parenting: 5 Common Parenting Misconceptions
Those who find parenting challenging might wonder why it is often so difficult. Did our parents have the same struggles? We attended a webinar about Parenting Problems by Dr Daniel Fung, head of Institute...
Bite-sized Parenting: Parent-Child Keepsake Journal Printable – Written Conversations
Conversations need not be verbal. Some children and, parents too, may enjoy writing to talking. That’s why we’ve put together a parent-child keepsake journal template which you can download and print out.
It is a...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Creating Your Family Mission Statement
Do you have a mission for yourself? How about for the family?
It seems common for corporate organisations to have mission statements which guide employees and stakeholders towards certain objectives and ways of conduct. How...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Lessons From The Older Generation To The Next
What better way to gain wisdom than to ask those who have walked before us? As we started the New Year, I took the opportunity to ask my own parents, aunts and uncles for...
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Supermom Dawn Sim (@thatmomoffour) Shares Why She Sent Her 4 Daughters To My First...
Dawn Sim (@thatmomoffour) is a supermum, mumtrepreneur and mum to four beautiful girls. When it came time to choose a pre-school for all her daughters, especially one which could get her children ready for...
We Tried Three: Parent Review Of 3 Ting Xie Apps
Is the weekly Tīng Xiě or Chinese Spelling tests challenging? Are your children reluctant to be quizzed?
Perhaps using paper and pen may be the most common route, some parents have also used other methods...
Family Review: Kopi King Card Game
Can you differentiate between “Kopi O Siew Dai” and “Kopi Si”? If you’re a noob at ordering drinks at the coffee shop or hawker centre, this game is perfect for you!
Kopi King is all...
Book Review: Who Are The Invisible People? Learning About People With Special Jobs
Shake your head if you have heard about the recent fiasco concerning the luxury car driver and a Security Guard. Some of you might ponder about how to encourage our young ones to be...
Review: ISSA 3 Silicone Sonic Toothbrush By FOREO
Swedish beauty-tech company FOREO has released their ISSA 3 Sonic Toothbrush, the latest upgrade to their quality sonic silicone toothbrush. This new addition to the ISSA family boasts 4-in-1 complete oral care, along with...
