My eight-year-old daughter’s ballet teacher recently encouraged her, along with four other classmates, to audition for a professional ballet production. As she has only been attending ballet classes for about a year, I thought that the audition would be an experience in itself, never mind the result. A few days before the much-awaited date, we were told that the kids would … [Read more...]

Do you date your kids? We started this tradition late last year, when I missed spending downtime with my daughter after months of craziness in my schedule. Our first mommy-daughter date was so much fun that I declared that we have one monthly. I know of families who spend one-on-one time with each of their kids, rotating weekly or monthly, and either with just one parent or … [Read more...]

The TV while eating habit problem is a common one. During one of our parenting workshops, a parent asked us what to do with her child who cannot eat without a TV or a gadget in front of him. We get asked this by yayas too in our Teacher Yaya workshops. My honest answer, I remember vividly, was, "Let me know if you find an answer." At that time, despite being the TV Nazi at … [Read more...]