Human bonding is central to learning and happiness

Policy makers by nature do not place that much importance in human bonding, which may not be correct.

Maybe it is time to focus less on individual capability but emotional attachment. 

Humans require emotions to process academic information. The family is very important.

Teenagers do not get enough sleep

Today: 29Oct14

The average teenager needs 8.5 hours to 9.5 hours of sleep per night. 

Due to puberty, it is difficult for them to sleep before 11pm. Based on biological sleep needs, they should get up around 8am.

And electronic distractions are cutting their sleep further. Institute an electronic curfew before bedtime.

No 'something for nothing' for Ian

'Something for nothing' is only practised by Asian parents. 

It harms our son and harms his parents.

Why we can give chance to children to fidget

Our challenge is to raise a child who likes to solve problems and is not afraid

Using the appropriate words to talk to the child

Life's sentence

Give all the money and spoil the child?

Straits Times 

Singapore facing a glut of lawyers

Sunday Times 17Aug14

There is a 50% increase in lawyers from 2000 to 2017 in Singapore.

The high cost of academic excellence

Straits Times 8 Aug 2014

The danger of cycling

Proverbs: The call of wisdom

Pg 16: to be shrewd

Pg 18: do I plan ahead?

Pg22: the wise person speaks wisely and kindly

Pg24: charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting. 

Wise people choose to live for what is eternal.

Pg25: wisdom is the stuff of everyday life, but it is also the stuff of life and death 

7 secrets to toddler discipline

Article by Prof Synder on straight A students

Loving your child (From Zig Ziglar)