Category: Parenting

When people think about academic success, they usually think about study habits, academic performance and grades. While all these factors are very important, there are also several other elements that will usually contribute to a student having a positive experience.  One factor that is sometimes overlooked is that of accommodation….

Last year, a friend called me in a panic. Her family had six months before a Hong Kong to Singapore transfer, two kids in different year groups, and no clear starting point. She had dozens of browser tabs open, and half of them seemed to disagree with the other half….

We moved to Hong Kong with two school-age kids and a suitcase full of questions. The acronyms felt like alphabet soup at first: POA, SSPA, JUPAS, HKDSE, VTC, and HKQF. The good news is that the system gets much clearer once you see how school types connect to exam routes…

Many children eat daily meals with little sense of the labor behind them. Farm-themed toys narrow that gap through active, sensory-rich play. While moving animals, loading wagons, or parking a combine, a child starts forming mental maps of food production. Those early maps matter. Pediatric guidance has long linked pretend…