C recently brought back two reusable colouring mats from France for the twins, but after the twins coloured on the mats with the markers...

It’s always a joy to discover new local authors, so we were really pleased to receive a selection of six local titles from Owl Readers...

We’ve been back in Singapore for slightly more than a month now, and I think we have settled into a routine of sorts, especially now that...

Ever since we relocated back to Singapore from Jakarta, the twins haven’t been able to sleep through the night. Our routine has always...

N has been into drawing these days, and when he found this book at the Periplus bookstore in Bali, he begged us to buy it for him, as he...

Selamat pagi! Good morning! We arrived in Jakarta,  overwhelmed. Everything was foreign: the people, the language, the culture. But all...

I’ve left the English component of N’s international school experience to the last, as there’s just so much to write about, and I’m not...

On one of our many visits to the national library during our previous trip back to Singapore, N discovered the Science Comics series, and...

In this last but one episode of ‘The Plano Adventures’, Professor Plano, Zed and Zee are called to Lord Myopic’s dream world: Machiville,...

We’ll be going back to Singapore for good really soon, and wanted to go on a short holiday within Indonesia before that. Bali was our...

N and the twins are constantly chasing each other around the house, playing “fighting”/”bad guys”/”monsters” or whatever else it is that...

At the beginning of N’s school year, we attended a goal-setting conference where N, his teacher, and us as parents, set goals for N and...

‘Life Without Nico’ is a sweet story about how a little girl copes when her best friend moves away for a while. It’s an unusual...

‘Clare’s Goodbye’ tells the story of how the three children of a family say goodbye to their home. Clare seems to struggle the most with...

Since we are leaving Jakarta soon, I went to N’s school library and asked his librarian for book recommendations on moving, so that I can...

Noah has been really into soccer these days, and takes every opportunity to kick the ball around. At the moment, he seems to be more keen...

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Yeah right. Unless you have extremely thick skin, I’m pretty sure...

Now that N is in Grade One, we don’t really have much time to explore various themes like we used to. The twins keep me very busy, and...

N has covered a few topics in Math so far, and to be completely honest, I’m not quite sure what all the topics are. I pop into his...

One huge benefit of our relocation to Jakarta is that N gets to attend an international school. There are so many things we love about...