Helping Parents Succeed
Tips on how to raise a happy and healthy family.
As I grow older, I like to remove things from my life instead of accumulating them.
Cooking included.
I try to make it as simple as possible. To make me look good, I’ll call it simplicity cooking.
But in actual fact, I am just being plain lazy:
I just want to cook up a healthy meal in the shortest time possible.
Especially lunch on school days.
While I was trying to do so, I broke some of the pre-conceived notions. [Read more…]
If you remember our encounter with HFMD, you’ll pray hard that it won’t happen again.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is not funny when it strikes your child.
Last Saturday, K was downed with fever in the evening. It subsided the next day but he suffered from sore throat after which.
The symptoms were the same as HFMD’s initial symptoms – minus the blisters on the hands and the feet.
“Oh no, not again! Could it be HFMD?” I thought. [Read more…]
Don’t get me wrong, I am not looking down on home-cooked food.
(Why should I? I am one who highly promotes it.)
I think the effort of parents preparing food at home is commendable.
It’s a lot of work and thinking and trying and making mistakes.
There are many reasons why parents cook at home.
One of them is to save money.
Secondly, it might be health reason.
I am more of the latter.
But wait… [Read more…]
It sounds like Chinese kung fu but it has nothing to do with martial arts.
It’s less glamorous than that.
Flying Mosquito Disease (飞蚊症) is the Chinese colloquial term for eye floaters.
Last Tuesday, I noticed there are exceptionally more flying objects in front of my eyes.
I thought they were mosquitoes or flies. Upon closer look, they are not. [Read more…]
Think we know more than babies?
Think again.
A reader shared with me an interesting experiment she and her friends did when they weaned their babies.
I admit I don’t know about this when J and K were young (I wish I did as it must be interesting). And it’s called baby-led weaning. [Read more…]