I think kids and students are tougher than adults. Wanna see a proof? Every year, they take up new academic challenges and some of them take up enrichment activities after school hours. Parents also put more pressure with the expectation of their kids’ academic results.  Wow…it sounds very hard. But look at them, they still can laugh and enjoy their life.  How about you, moms? Are you ready to take up new challenges? Here is a good quote to welcome New Year 2010:

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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Get ready for school after a long nice holiday may be hard for schooling kids. Going back to school blues are noticeable for preschoolers and kids who start their first year in primary school. Young kids may experience anxiety of separation from their parents and new environment. I have seen young kids showed their tantrums during their first few days at school. For older kids, they showed anxiety for going back to school in new school year for having a new teacher and new academic challenges. They also showed reluctance for going back to school routine. My eldest was afraid of learning new and difficult lessons when she started her first year at primary school. Now, she was only concerned about having a new teacher for every new school year. My youngest started kindergarten with a confidence and told me: “Mummy, you now can go home! No need to wait me at school.”

As parents, you can do some preparation to ensure kids are ready for school. Take a look at parenting tips to prepare kids going back to school:

School morning routine. Kids may be relaxed during holiday. They can wake up late and go to bed late too. A week before school starts, please make them to go to bed early and start morning routine for readiness to school.

Readiness for school. For preschoolers, parents can talk about pre-school often and visit the school with your kids. Read the book about going back to school for preschoolers may be a good idea. Revise some pre-school activities books may give your child a confidence and lessen their anxiety. For older kids, it may be best to go through some light revision for subjects or lessons that they aren’t good at so they will be ready for the new academic year.

If kids are prepared for going back to school, parents shall have no worries. Some schools may have session “meet the teachers” after the first weeks of the school start. Make use this session to build a rapport with the teacher and to find out more about your child if there are any learning difficulties or other problems.

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Christmas is special occasion for Christian family. Parents, do spare some time during Christmas to make fun activities for the family so they become everlasting memories. What are fun ideas to make Christmas memorable and fun? I say, Plenty. You can think something traditional or create new things out of the box.

Remember your childhood  during Christmas.  What did your parents do for you and your siblings? Revive the tradition back in your home with your children. Read More »

Most of today’s business goes online unless they sell perishable goods and heavy weight items. For home based working moms who run WAHM Business, website is a platform to bring your WAHM business online. I would rather see a website as a static site because you don’t update it often. How to promote your website on regular basis? The answer lies on blogging. Blog is a dynamic site provided that you update regularly. Blogging is free and effective means to promote your wahm business online. Search engine will rank high for a website which has a blog. For home based working moms, please write for your own blog beside source articles from the internet. If you update your blog with fresh and original content regularly with targeted keywords, your blog will crawl to higher rank in the search engine. Don’t forget to link to your website in your blog post so that your website will have lots of backlinks from your blog. Read More »

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Toys are fun and bring magic to your kids. It’s true. Let’s take a look at the importance of play for children and benefits of toys in different kinds of play as learning resources for kids. Read More »

Toys are the top choice of Holiday Gift for kids. I must say that parents shall take kids interest when they choose toys for them. But don’t always grant what the kids wish for. Try to introduce them with different kinds of toys and show them how to play so they will have interest in it. Toys are great learning resources for kids. Remember that learning doesn’t always come from the textbook and learning through play brings so much fun for kids.

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Few years ago, online WAHM Business is pretty much about selling physical products via online store. I’m still running online store till today. However, selling physical products are limited within the country itself. The delivery cost puts additional cost to the product cost itself and many shop owners have to bear the delivery cost and provide FREE SHIPPING. Not only WAHM business run online store, there are numerous medium to large scale companies are running their business via online store despite having their physical store. They add more competition to the market.

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