Does your boy resist reading?  Having difficulty getting them to pick up that book? The solution? Laughter is indeed the best medicine.

Two years ago, when struggling with getting my then-K2 to start reading on a more regular basis, I picked out a "Humor book" from NLB. I still remember vividly, how ds1 complained that there were a lot of pages (about 60 pages) in that book. Pinning on the hope that he may be enticed by the funny story and finish the whole book in one sitting (actually there are only a few lines in each of the 60 pages), I merely told him that he could stop after 3-4 pages and continue the next day if he wished. 20 minutes later, he told me (proudly) that he finished the whole book and the story is quite funny. Bingo! So hence started our journey down the funny lane....

1.Horrible Series Handbooks (Suitable for K2 to P1)

I was at the pantry on Monday and ran into a colleague.  She was busy preparing her bread spread when I spotted this japanese label on the bottle that she was holding.  What's that, I asked her.  She told me it is black seasame paste spread.  Then she went on to spread that black thingy onto her bread.

For a long time, I had heard the goodness of black seasame to dark shiny hair. In my heart, I was already thinking, how on earth she found this interesting stuff.  My hubby has been so sick of the magarine each morning and I had been searching for ages for a better alternative.

It was a fascinating sight at Body Worlds. It is not eerie but near the entrance, it was a little dim and the music playing at that point gave a strange feeling, could not quite put a finger to it. That was where the start of the human life cycle was exhibited.

If you like, buy the $2 booklet(pls bring a pen/pencil) at the entrance, unlike us...3/4 way through the exhibit then we realised that there was a booklet to follow through the exhibit. It is just a good way to run through the exhibit if your kids are keen, mine was.

The real-human exhibits were awesomely plastinated. I wonder if I would like to be considered for such in future...   Some of them are really like beautiful art pieces God has created, so I wonder if they have been re-sculptured or pre-selected.

ClickN READ Phonics teaches the entire kindergarten to 3rd grade phonics curriculum taught at USA public schools through 100 interactive cartoon animated online phonics lessons. Children learn english correctly in a phonics game-like environment that is great fun and easy to use.

Scouted from forum thread DVDs and Educational Computer Softwares

"I bought 2 DVDs locally. Then bought 4 more in the Little Einsteins series from amazon. They teach a piece of classical music, introducing the composer's name, important landmarks in the world like the leaning tower of Pisa, Great wall of China, the Pyraminds of Egypt, etc, art, and even some musical notations (allegro, adagio,diminuendo, etc). Very educational. " tamarind

I love bringing my little boy to the library. It makes a great outing trip and it satisfy his need to read new books frequently and my limited budget. A variety of books to call his own  however, seems to contribute to his love for reading. Many books that we have since he was just a few months old continue to intrigue him in different ways at different stages of his development and make for great bonding time for us.

Here are some tips for selecting books that will last for some years for your baby.

We all know the best way to learn a foreign language is to know some one who speaks that language and pick it up from them. Practice makes perfect and ideally we will get to interact in that language often enough to pick it up. But short of that, we will have to rely on resources that helps give us/our kids some exposure. Here's some resources that comes in handy for introducing French.

I was at the library not too long after an unpleasant time-out session with my boy when this book catches my eye.

Time-out is one of the most popular disciplinary techniques used in homes and schools today. This method of discipline is often used as a punishment for misbehaviour.  The author Jane Nelsen challenge this attitude and make a case that time-out can be a positive, motivating, experience while punitive time out may seems to work in the short run but does not solve the root of the problem.