For mothers like us with preschool-aged children, it can be difficult to decide whether to place our children in a pre-school to prepare them for kindergarten. For working mothers, it seems practical to send their children to preschool during work hours. For stay-at-home mothers, they may have different opinions. Whatever it is, searching and finding the most appropriate preschool can be a daunting task.  

For me, I went through this situation last year, when my son was 2+ years old. I couldn’t decide whether I should send him to preschool when he turns 3. By the time I finally decided to do so, I missed out big time. When I called various preschools around Sept last year, I found out that they were mostly full for year 2010 intake.

Recently, a few blog readers wrote to me with questions about practicing flashcards as well as making them. So, I decided to write this post to share my knowledge and personal experiences.

Purposes of flashcards:
Flashing the cards in a high speed activates our child’s right brain and empowers their memory ability. When we flash the picture cards, we read out the words at the same time.

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The birthday cake is always the center of attraction in a birthday party. This cake sits in a place of honor, with beautiful candles glowing on top it, as we sing the “Happy Birthday” song. After the birthday song and all the oooh-and-aaah are over, it’s time to cut and taste how delicious the cake is.

Besides the taste, we also need to consider the shape, color, size and design of the birthday cake. If the birthday cake has a theme or cartoon characters, the children will definitely love it. It is better to decorate the birthday cake using the favorite color of the birthday boy or girl.

Most parents love their children more than their own lives. But sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, we are too busy to notice that our children need a more loving emotional connection with us.

Do we show our love and compassion to our children everyday? If no, please take a moment to hug and kiss your child now.

We, as parents, do menial tasks for our children everyday to prove our love for them. We take care of them, cook for them, send them to school, tuck them to sleep etc.  But to our children, they may not be able to ‘feel’ our love and the emotional connection from all these daily activities.

My wonderful, creative and active 21-month-old son absolutely adores books. Every night when we reach home, he will quickly walk into my room to take his books. We will sit together – he flips the pages while I read to him. This makes me extremely happy. It’s a good bonding time for us.