Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Nov 5, 2009, 4:41 pm
I think it goes without saying that every parent (at least most of us) love our children “unconditionally”.  In fact, this belief has been so completely accepted in my own mind that I never even ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Nov 3, 2009, 11:19 am
I have always wanted Gavin to learn how to think outside the box.  I believe it is important that he learns how to deal with problems creatively and have always encouraged him to try to solve a probl...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Nov 2, 2009, 10:10 am
Here’s a tip I recently discovered…  Actually, it’s not really a new trick.  In fact, it’s an old trick I’m sure many of us have pulled in the office to deal with those difficult colleague...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 31, 2009, 12:23 pm
See the previous post on this topic.  Read this topic from the start.  And now, the continuation… 8. Don’t offer rewards for positive social behaviour There is a more thorough article on the n...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 30, 2009, 9:13 am
I’ve always made it clear that I am anti-corporal punishment.  If you read my post on the topic, you will understand the reasons why I am against it.  Lately, I have discovered one more reason to ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 29, 2009, 9:13 pm
I found this particular chapter from Nurture Shock particularly enlightening.  We’ve never had any issues with Gavin reacting to the colour of an individual’s skin until he started going to schoo...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 28, 2009, 9:46 pm
I’ve been considering getting Gavin a camera because he always wants mine whenever I take it out to take photos.  He’s also been taking a lot of self-portraits using my mobile phone camera.  Alt...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 27, 2009, 9:41 am
In the book “The Complete Secrets of Happy Children“, Steve Biddulph talked about the importance of “firm love”.  In essence, firm love is basically parenting with set rules and structure.  ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 26, 2009, 10:47 am
Po Bronson wrote the article “Snooze or Lose” which questions whether a lack of sleep can set back your child’s cognitive abilities?  This is essentially chapter 2 from the book Nurture Shock. ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 25, 2009, 12:31 pm
Since I was going green with the new baby, I figured it was time to start doing the same with Gavin. Although he is partially toilet trained during the day, I think it will be quite a while before we...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 5, 2009, 12:07 pm
It has always been my intention to send Gavin to school only when he is old enough to attend kindergarten – which meant he wouldn’t have started going to school until he was about 4 or 5 years old...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 4, 2009, 6:25 pm
When I was in Primary School, my best friend told me about how her mother was her teacher at her old school.  I used to think it would be great to have my own mother as my teacher until she shared he...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 4, 2009, 10:25 am
When Gavin was ill, we took him to see the paediatrician near our house.  In the waiting room, they have TV on showing re-runs of Tom and Jerry.  As we were watching it, it suddenly occurred to me w...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 3, 2009, 3:52 am
As I mentioned during my previous post, I had to take an oral glucose tolerance test to check if I might have gestational diabetes.  I have never really considered myself to be at risk of gestational...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Oct 1, 2009, 3:44 am
Week: 31 Blood pressure: 110/70 Urine: clear Weight gain: 4kgs Baby’s weight: 2.2kgs Baby’s size: average 33 weeks Symptoms: Braxton Hick’s contractions, irregular bowel movements, piles, ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 29, 2009, 6:52 pm
If I thought novelty sandwiches were a big deal, that was because I had never seen these: Although my SIL2’s been into the whole bento lunch box thing for a while, I never knew just how creativ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 29, 2009, 12:23 pm
“Don’t eat oranges.” “Don’t eat grapes.” “In fact, don’t eat any citrus fruits.” “Don’t eat sugary foods.” “Don’t take dairy.” “Don’t take cold foods.” These ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 28, 2009, 5:52 pm
My friend SM told me about this one, too… What: The 1st International Baby Show 2009 Where: KLCC Convention Centre When: 6-8th October, 2009 (10am – 6pm) It appears that 6-7th October is stric...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 28, 2009, 10:51 am
Gavin has been sick lately.  Nothing serious – thankfully.  Just a mild cough, stuffy nose, slightly elevated body temperature but no fever or other symptoms.  It was quite evident that Gavin was...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 25, 2009, 9:43 pm
Up until now, I haven’t really known whether the method of learning by flash cards have really been working for Gavin.  Nevertheless, I’ve continued with it in the hope that he would pick up some...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 25, 2009, 12:40 pm
DreamBox Learning is running a competition to help children dream big.  Here’s what you have to do: 1. Shoot a short video of your child (or children) talking about what they want to be when they...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 24, 2009, 10:27 am
Yesterday, my friend SM told me about a live performance of Thomas and Friends that would be screening in Singapore soon.  Being a mother of an avid Thomas fan, I decided to Google it to see what it ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 24, 2009, 2:09 am
After the experience with the Braxton Hick’s contractions, I noticed Gareth being rather quiet at night when he is normally most active.  It got me a little worried and I stayed up waiting to feel ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 23, 2009, 5:08 pm
Back Pain It will be another week before I see the doctor again.  The back pain is worse and affects me every time I lie down.  I get both lumbar back pain and posterior pelvic pain which descends ...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 21, 2009, 7:02 am
This is the reason why I believe it is so important to tap into your child’s potential and discover what it is they love to do… Akiane is a child prodigy in art.  She has been drawing and pain...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 20, 2009, 11:59 am
Quite some time back I bought Gavin a whole series of early childhood education DVDs with the intention of starting him on a home schooling program.  Although we ended up going the way of the playsch...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 19, 2009, 9:36 pm
I’ve been told that the teachers at school think Gavin is a very well behaved, polite and well-spoken little boy.  As proud as I am to hear such praise for my son, I often wonder why he can’t beh...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 19, 2009, 12:36 pm
Invariably, all toddlers go through a phase where they start to ask that dreaded “why” question – or at least a variation of it.  Gavin’s is “how come?”  For instance: Gavin: What did t...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 17, 2009, 9:01 pm
I saw this Thai commercial for an insurance company on a friend’s facebook wall and it moved me to tears.  This is exactly the kind of unconditional love I want to give my children.  No matter wha...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 17, 2009, 11:58 am
Having a second baby has made me ponder over all the things I wish I had done differently with Gavin.  It seems like there are so many things I want to do with Gareth that I never did with Gavin.  G...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 17, 2009, 2:21 am
I’ve been pondering a lot more about Gavin’s learning style and trying to find some sort of quiz I can do to help me figure it out.  So far, I’ve come across two – one by Scholastic, which se...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 14, 2009, 10:47 am
After reading about the preferred learning styles of children, it got my brain churning about the Myers-Briggs personality test my cousin did with me a couple of years back.  The Myers-Briggs persona...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 13, 2009, 10:52 pm
There was an interesting article in Baby Center about children’s learning styles.  According to the article, children are either auditory, visual or physical learners.  The purpose of figuring out...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 13, 2009, 3:04 pm
... it is important to remember this when it comes to disciplining a toddler.  It can be extremely annoying to have to constantly bring a toddler up short for the same misdeeds.  It may seem t...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 9, 2009, 6:26 pm
Getting a child out of diapers is probably one of the most dreaded tasks of being a parent.  Unfortunately it is a task that must be done – eventually.  The question is: when and how? Just as the...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 9, 2009, 7:31 am
With the increasing occurrence of back pain arising due to the pregnancy, I decided it was time to think about doing some Pilates.  Since it hasn’t been easy to get to Fitfor2 these days with a lim...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 8, 2009, 10:30 pm
A few weeks back, I was stretching in bed – no not the regular exercise stretches but the lazy kind of stretch when you’re trying to brace yourself to get up out of bed.  All of a sudden, I start...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 6, 2009, 12:20 pm
A long time ago, I used to use a method of handling Gavin’s tantrums that was devised by paediatrician Harvey Karp, called “Toddlerese“.  I haven’t used it in a long time for various reasons....
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 4, 2009, 1:47 pm
There is an interesting article from the 2009 July issue of Scientific American Magazine: “Crawling May Be Unnecessary for Normal Child Development“. As a parent who is pro-baby wearing, I have t...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 4, 2009, 5:06 am
After a long week off school, Gavin was back to school earlier this week.  As we predicted, he was not at all happy to be back.  The first day was probably the worst – we had a renewal of the cryi...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 3, 2009, 9:33 pm
When I first became pregnant, I was recommended by a friend to sign up for weekly newsletters from BabyCenter.  It was pretty simple, you key in your expected due date and you would automatically rec...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 3, 2009, 1:27 pm
Some time back, I wrote about Gavin and his intense dislike for his formal school uniform.  Back then, I had come up with the idea of ironing on some Thomas and Friends appliques inside his school ve...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 3, 2009, 5:21 am
Although parents are aware that there are certain things that should not be spoken before a toddler, there are times when we are caught off guard.  Certain words may seem harmless until you hear your...
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Shen-Li L. posted an article on Baby's Diary - Sep 2, 2009, 7:43 pm
When you are parenting a toddler – especially one in the throes of the terrible twos – it becomes increasingly important to remember your humour.  It’s just another way to stay sane in this cra...
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