With the end-of-year examinations around the corner, emotions are running high and sometimes, they can be unmanageable. With the current generation having a better understanding of emoticons than emotions, sometimes it may be challenging for the young ones (and ourselves included) to cope with emotions. With the current ongoing Covid-19 pandemic that encourages many activities to take place online, the struggle to manage emotions is real.
Category: Love
Missing out on family time? Here’s how to turn things around!
Life as a Singaporean parent can be pretty challenging today. Yes, you hardly get any time to keep your mind off all those commitments, deadlines, and assignments at work. Working from home may have made it slightly easier to balance, but let’s face it. Juggling our work commitments with the equally important family time is often a Herculean task. But is that any excuse for losing out on family time?
Celebrating Christmas during COVID!
The spirit of Christmas is sure to bring a smile to your face. But this isn’t every other year, is it? So many of us are naturally worried about Christmas being ruined or feeling less Christmassy. Well, we’ve got news for you, the Christmas spirit ain’t going anywhere!
Family Bonding during the Holidays!
The year-end holidays have arrived and it’s time to breathe in some holiday air into our hearts and souls. This time, the holidays are extra special. It has been a really challenging year for all of us and we have trodden through it with a lot of effort and determination.
Celebrating Diwali!
Diwali, the festival of lights, always brings with it a sense of joy and excitement. A festival that is mostly attributed to the Hindu culture of India, Diwali has over the centuries transcended the walls of religion and has turned out to be one of the most popular festivals in the world.
Bringing back the joy of learning!
Year 2020 – the year of many changes, and the presence of Covid-19 does nothing to help us cope with the unfamiliar and unprecedented events that have been happening. Similarly, there are some changes in the education landscape in Singapore that have happened, and will continue to happen in the near future.
Happy Children’s Day!
Think October! What do we get? Yes, we are in the final quarter of the year. But what this also means is that it’s….. Finally Children’s Day!
Yes, our little Padawans, this is a day that we are reminded of your importance, not just for us to educate and nurture, but because you are our hope for the future. We celebrate this day that is meant to cheer on that’s the day on which we celebrate children across the length and breadth of our country. But what about this year?
How can I provide better parental support during the examinations?
As the exam season spreads across the nation, our students are all immersed in their preparation. Students are doing all that they can in order to put up their best performance inside the exam hall. Now, there definitely is a lot of talk both within our homes as well as outside regarding what students must do during these last days in the run-up to the exams. But there’s something that is quite relevant but not getting the adequate amount of discussion time.
Let’s Celebrate Love this Valentine’s Day!
As we all know, Valentine’s Day is a fixed day on the calendar and it falls on the 14th of February every year. No one has pinpointed the exact origin of this day, however, a good place to start with would be Ancient Rome. Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia where men drew the names of women from a jar and they coupled up for the duration of the festival (usually from February 13th-15th) or longer if the match was right.
