Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
I wanted to called it Shepherd’s Pie but read somewhere on the Internet that the dish uses lamb. Makes sense. Since beef is used here, it should be called Cottage Pie. Oh well. Eh, this recipe is named thus as
Hannah has been introduced to foods which tasted sweet (e.g. pumpkin, carrot, sweet potato, fruits), sour (e.g. yogurt and apple) or a little bitter (e.g. spinach and eggplant). Salt has been left out in her diet as it is not
Grinding rice grains helps to cut down time required to cook them into soft porridge. It takes a bit of trouble to get it done but the convenience that comes later is worth it. So here’s what I did after
One of the challenges I faced when Hannah started on solid food was time management. Life began to feel quite hurried at home when cooking was part of the daily routine. Gosh, and more washing too! Since I didn’t start
…standing on the promises of God my Saviour…” this song was reverberating in my head during one of our play times together. I was deliberating whether to buy a play yard (see example) for Hannah so that she could play
It has been two months since Hannah started her weekday morning infant care at Punggol. She has adapted extremely well to the environment and is familiar with all her care-givers. However, she always cry when she sees me at the
Step aside Newater, gold is the in thing now. I was reading this interesting article about many (and wild) possibilities of making sewage useful. The world’s population produces around 1.2 billion tonnes of faeces and 15 hundred billion of urine per year.
Just when I was marvelling at Yang’s dad for having his ex-students paying him visits year after year during the Chinese New Year season, I got one tonight too. Name is Jinju. I taught her biology and was also her
First Month: She smiled. Second Month: Started to mimick sounds of words, e.g. ‘er le’, ‘ok lah’. Slept through the night. Started to gain better support of her head. Third Month: Started to giggle. Mumbled what sounded like ‘mommy’. Stuck
Just when she was about to recover from a mild flu, Hannah came down with diarrhoea. Her pediatrician said the disease was gastroenteritis. Besides diarrhoea, other symptoms include nausea, vomiting and cramping. Well, Hannah had diarrhoea only but it was
The main reason behind introducing veggies before fruits for infants is to avoid the rejection of the greens later in life. Since fruits tends to be sweeter than veggies, the assumption is that babies will accept them easily. Right? Nah…
Hannah came down with a mild viral infection recently. Her symptoms were blocked, stuffy nose and sporadic cough. I discovered her illness on Monday morning and so called my workplace to apply for childcare leave. Hannah has been seeing the
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