Happy Thursday! Hope all families and parents are looking forward to the end of the school and work week For all parents, we have just released an article discussing the topic of building mental wellness and resilience in children. It does not always appear in obvious ways. A child hesitates before starting a task they once approached easily. Another becomes unusually quiet after a small setback. Sometimes, it shows up as frustration over something that seems minor, or a reluctance to try again after getting something wrong. These moments are easy to dismiss as passing phases. Yet, beneath them often lies something more subtle, the early formation of how a child understands stress, difficulty, and their own ability to cope. Mental wellness, at a young age, is rarely about the absence of challenges. It is about how children begin to experience and respond to them. Do give it a read and let us know your thoughts! Interested parents may also contact us through the following platforms for any tuition related enquiries: Website - www.educaretutoring.sg Instagram - @educaretutoringsg WhatsApp - +65 8893 4017 Email - [email protected] Educare Tutoring - Affordable & Quality Tuition Read more of our articles that highlight important considerations for primary, secondary school and Junior College students

Happy Thursday! Hope all families and parents are looking forward to the end of the school and work week For all parents, we have just released an article discussing the topic of building mental wellness and resilience in children. It does not always appear in obvious ways. A child hesitates before starting a task they once approached easily. Another becomes unusually quiet after a small setback. Sometimes, it shows up as frustration over something that seems minor, or a reluctance to try again after getting something wrong. These moments are easy to dismiss as passing phases. Yet, beneath them often lies something more subtle, the early formation of how a child understands stress, difficulty, and their own ability to cope. Mental wellness, at a young age, is rarely about the absence of challenges. It is about how children begin to experience and respond to them. Do give it a read and let us know your thoughts! Interested parents may also contact us through the following platforms for any tuition related enquiries: Website - www.educaretutoring.sg Instagram - @educaretutoringsg WhatsApp - +65 8893 4017 Email - [email protected] Educare Tutoring - Affordable & Quality Tuition Read more of our articles that highlight important considerations for primary, secondary school and Junior College students

@winth It’s hard for anyone to tell another person to divorce. It’s wrong. A marriage will lose its spark after some years but if the couple wants to keep the marriage going, then they will work on it. Understanding each other and finding out the root of any unhappiness. Personally I wanted the split because I felt lonely in the marriage. When I wanted to discuss, it sounded like alarm bells. On my part, I started to realise what I want and felt shortchanged. It’s so true that one gets to know the true personality of the spouse at the end of the relationship. It’s rare for couples to split amicably. If the decision is to break up, make it a clean cut and have no contact. After the divorce, move on. It took me quite a while to do so.

@sharonkhoo I was a SAHM for 21 years. I returned to the workforce after the kids got older and independent. It was a steep curve as I left the workforce in 1999. So much has changed. It’s really not easy to deal with the job scope and the micro managing boss.

I am working in a preschool. The working hours are 9 hours (1 hour lunch). We are tired after a long day and it would be lovely if parents can pick up their kids soon. Teachers have their families too. Frankly I do wish we don’t have to fulfill the mandatory 44 hours every week. Preschools do impose a late fee to be fair to the closing shift teachers who would have to accompany the children until they are picked up.

@rinsider said: So what kind of mixed signal is he sending to his son? “Daddy is outraged as the teacher could have expressed it better, therefore daddy had to redeem himself against this remark… I’m not just a Grab driver…” Under any circumstances, for someone to make a remark like “they’re just an XYZ,” it doesn’t reflect well on them. And if we’re on the receiving end of that statement, I guess defensiveness is one of the natural responses. Eg stay-home/wfh/freelancer moms may be triggered if someone says they’re “just staying home,” or implies that they’re not productive, or even just “bumming around.” (Tbh, even friends/very decent people have made those kinds of statements to me before, and I could be just as guilty of saying something that reveals my own bias.) The response might then be to try and qualify one’s value. So… in that sense, I don’t really blame the dad for sending those mixed signals. One could also say, “Yes, this is what I do, and I like it/am proud of my work.” But I suspect we’re all a little more complicated than that!

@beemum There should be plenty of seniors from Singapore your child can ask! As long as they’re fairly independent and willing to figure things out and adapt, they will be fine. I had a mental list of life skills which I mentally checked off - self-care (laundry, shopping, cooking, nutrition), budgeting, social skills, self-discipline, etc. Not that they won’t be silly sometimes, they are only 19 (girls)! But they should be generally able to manage on their own.

@NickL The parent’s feedback can be found at the following link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUpTuX0CZQl/?igsh=MWl0bHk4dGNnazhzMA== The school has not responded at all. FYI.

@rinsider said: Besides tuition, how do parents nowadays try to incorporate Chinese into their kids’ lives actively? Especially if you were weak in the language yourself? My son (now Sec 3) has a millennial tutor, but he’s more of a friend/mentor, so these sessions are enjoyable. In the past, we had asked our tutor to take my son and his friends on outings, like to the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. Apart from that, I had hired my friend’s daughter (early 20s) for a small fee, to have conversations and play games with my son. But ultimately I think if we don’t speak the language in our daily life, it’s quite hard to improve!