Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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Diwali 2009
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Most educational TV shows for children
According to David Dutwin, a social science researcher and the authour of "Unplug your kids:A Parent's Guide to Raising Happy,Active & Well-adjusted Kids in the Digital Age", the following are among the best educational shows for preschoolers:
Reading Rainbow
Oobi
Mister Roger’s Neighbourhood
Wordworld
Super WHY!
Play with me Seasame
Pinky Dinky Doo
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Jack’s Big Music Show
Barney & Friends
Dragon Tales
Between the Lions
Sesame Street
Mama Mirabelle’s Home movies
Franny’s Feet
Backyard habitat (For age 4 and up)
Wilbur
Hip Hop Harry
Out of all these shows,I am familiar with "Worldworld","Play with me Seasame","Mickey Mouse Clubhouse",Barney & Friends","Between the Lions" ,"Sesame Street" and of course "Barney & Friends".
The two seasame street shows are undoubtedly good and maybe I am biased because I watched Seasame Street as a child. "Wordworld" is also very educational for children above three and so is "Between the Lions"."Between the Lions",however,is probably not aired in any of the children's channel in Singapore but I have bought some of the DVDs.
We have recently started watching Mama Mirabelle's Home movies in CBeebies and I would say that it is an excellent show.It gets kids interested in the animal kingdom and presents lots of information in a lively way. Barney,though educational,is no longer liked by my four and a half year old girl...my younger one still likes it. The other shows,which we have never watched,I am trying to trace in Nick Jr.,Disney and Playhouse Disney.Other mummies...please help me out in tracing these shows and let me know when and where they are aired.
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Labels: Nurturing young minds
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Craft Idea - Building made of toothpaste box
- Cut out a sheet of paper making it the exact size of the box so as to cover all sides. Also cut out 2 squares to fit the top and bottom.
- Stick this paper to the box
- Using other color papers cut out doors and windows. Stick them on as well.
- Now with the shiny pens shade out or outline the doors and windows. Here I have shaded the windows so as to get the light-shining effect. The black window means that the office is shut and the orange is where people are still working. My building is a night-view version !!
- My son loved to stick the windows onto the building, and then announced it as Papa's office. Later in the day it became our residential tower !!
- Enjoy making this oh-so-simple craft, you could make multiple buildings and then the kids can play 'city'.

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Labels: Cultivating Creativity in kids, Easy Crafts for mommies
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Taking care of silk sarees
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Labels: home management
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Homeschooling moms
I am in awe of homeschooling mothers because they have taken the schooling of their children entirely in their own hands and doing so requires a lot of guts.
I find the concept of homeschooling quite appealing because the mother has a lot of freedom in designing the curriculum according to the interest of her child. Also,she can devote her attention fully to him and give him a lot of one-to-one attention.Recently,I have started giving some individual attention to Nayaz in the mornings when Zunairah is in school and I have already noticed improvement in the area of vocabulary and language.We do nursery rhymes,coloring or go for interesting outings nearby.Our time is cut short by his schedule as he has to set off for school around 10:15 am.
I was actually thinking of withdrawing my younger one out of school and homeschooling him.He is going to turn three and so he doesn't have much to lose even if I turn out to be a not-so-effective teacher-mum. But then I thought of the socializing part and I kind of backed out.He loves going to school these days.Also,what about the Mandarin part?I can't understand a thing that is in his mandarin report card but I believe that the early exposure that he is getting now in the mandarin classes will serve him well if we stay on in Singapore and even if we leave the country.
These reasons have kind of dampened my enthusiasm for homeschooling.But I keep reading about homeschooling as it fascinates me.
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Labels: Child Development
Monday, October 26, 2009
A beautiful story - God's Wings
A little something to put things in perspective… After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park , forest rangers One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her ‘He will cover you with His feathers, Being loved this much should make a difference in your life.
began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno’s damage.
statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat
sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick.
When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under
their dead mother’s wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of
impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the
tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing
babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her
small body, the mother had remained steadfast ..because she had
been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.
And under His wings you will find refuge.’
(Psalm 91:4)
Remember the One who loves you, and then be different because of it.
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Labels: Deep Within
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Window shopping - our theme for the weekend
Window shopping in a place where everyone seems to be shopping for something and where every (almost) store has some too-good-to-resist promotion going on...how and why on earth did I decide to just window-shop?.....answer lies in the time of the month...where the bank account has been set on high speed spin dry by paying off all those bills, and trying to maintain a good diet at home....it's the month-end and like me many of you also may face this situation at this time of the month.
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Labels: KL Diary, Things we Love, This day in time
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Our Killa (fort)
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Labels: Easy Crafts for mommies, Festivals


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