<![CDATA[Our 10,000th member]]>I've been sitting here refreshing my screen for the past 15mins, trying to catch the moment when KiasuParents.com reaches a key milestone - our 10,000th member. It reminds me of the days back in Dec 2007 when we were so excited when the very first stranger actually took the trouble to sign up as a member and make a post in our Kiasu Forums.


We named ourselves KiasuParents.com, partly tongue-in-cheek, but mostly as a reference to the fundamental motivations that drive parents' supposedly \"kiasu\" behavior.

The last 21 months have been an incredible and most fulfilling journey for us, where we have total strangers coming onboard with us to share their deepest fears, concerns and hopes for their children. Along the way, some have come and gone, while others have continued to stay to help out in our quest to equip Singapore's parents with the necessary information and knowledge to bring up our children in the best way we can. Regardless, every single post and comment leaves that bit of wisdom which may seem insignificant for those who already possess it, yet immeasurably useful to others who are desperately looking for it. And all these pieces come together to form our huge repository of shared knowledge, derived from practitioners (ie. parents like ourselves), and not merely the brain-child of some talented expert in child education.

Like most people, before I had a child, I had a few theories myself about parenting. Now I have 2 children and no theories. We all have our own ideas about bringing up junior, but every child is too unique to respond uniformly to a specific parenting style. What works for one may not work as well for another, even amongst siblings. So as parents, it is necessary to see our role as navigators for our children, not to push them, but to tell them what may lie ahead depending on which fork they choose to take whenever they reach a crossroad they must pass in their lives. And what we ourselves know about what lies ahead is limited by our own experiences. This is where the true benefit of having an open platform for parent-sharing lies. We learn from each other's experience, and being open, the community itself will serve as the ultimate moderator and help sieve the facts from the myths.

Through KiasuParents.com, I have personally benefitted from the shared wisdom of the community. I have met so many wonderful and caring people which I treat as my personal friends. And I can finally understand why Maria Montessori made the fundamental rule in her early childhood education programme - always treat the child as a young adult. Our children are not ours to control or to push to meet our own objectives - they are human beings with their own predilections and dreams to follow. And every dream is good - it is unnatural for anyone to aspire to be a bad or useless person! Our duties as parents are to respect our children, encourage compassion, instill strong principles, and a thirst for learning - essentially preparing them to do their own duties effectively in the not-so-distant future when THEY take over our roles in nation building while caring for their own children.
Let me take this opportunity to welcome our first 10,000 member at 4:40pm 15 Aug 2009 - http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/users/chillypadi?mode=viewprofile&u=10338, and to thank our KiasuParents.com community for the wonderful times we've had. And may we gather in strength and wisdom, so that we can continue to help more Singapore parents to become better parents to our children!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/4971/our-10-000th-memberRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 12:37:05 GMTSat, 15 Aug 2009 10:55:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:28:21 GMT]]>

vlim:
Muffins:

Free KSpoints for our _0000th members! :shock: If that's the case, I'm going to sign up again under another name just to be the 30,000th member! 🙂


by the time u your registration is confirmed u could be no. 30001 member...haaaaaaaaaa :heresmyfish:

So mean! 😢 :gloomy: (just joking 🙂 :))

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160437https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160437Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:28:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:29:23 GMT]]>:congrats:

Kudos to CKS and the moderators here for a job well done...
and also to all who so generously shared their knowledge, wisdom and experiences.... :thankyou:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160344https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160344Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:29:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:40:59 GMT]]>:congrats: ksp forummers!


Really like this community!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160182https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160182Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:39:47 GMT]]>

Muffins:
Free KSpoints for our _0000th members! :shock: If that's the case, I'm going to sign up again under another name just to be the 30,000th member! 🙂

by the time u your registration is confirmed u could be no. 30001 member...haaaaaaaaaa :heresmyfish:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160178https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160178Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:39:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:24:19 GMT]]>Free KSpoints for our _0000th members! :shock: If that's the case, I'm going to sign up again under another name just to be the 30,000th member! 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160157https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160157Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:24:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:02:54 GMT]]>I think chief shld announce who this 20000th member is n reward him/her with KPs!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160117https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160117Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:02:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:58:06 GMT]]>Wow! Hats off to you, Chief. You have managed to make this forum site so fun to log into that now, 20,000 members have become kiasu :D.! :congrats: and celebrations! And not to forget, :welcome: aboard, chillypadi! :). :celebrate: :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160113https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160113Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:58:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:23:55 GMT]]>

lovekidsverymuch:
Maybe purposely Chief didnt gave the name of the 20,000th member cause last time the person who reported for 10,000th member didnt post anything 😞

Well, there are many silent readers in this forum. Some don't even bother to register. Not surprising.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160064https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/160064Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:23:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:58:42 GMT]]>

lovekidsverymuch:
tankee:

er ... by the way, who is this 20,000th member?


Maybe purposely Chief didnt gave the name of the 20,000th member cause last time the person who reported for 10,000th member didnt post anything 😞


it is \"username\" ....

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159886https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159886Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:58:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:56:47 GMT]]>:congrats: to us all!

This is a forum for all to share our experiences, 聚思广益, so the more the merrier!
:celebrate: :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159879https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159879Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:56:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:55:30 GMT]]>:congrats: to Chief and your group who started this forum!


I'm sure we will receive our 30,000th member in less than 6 months! :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159677https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159677Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:55:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:01:31 GMT]]>

ChiefKiasu:
...PS. Your lion dance seem to be for Hari Raya... all green!


we are a multiracial society afterall ... 😉

it's the only animated one I can find ...

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159653https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159653Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:01:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:10 GMT]]>

tankee:
er ... by the way, who is this 20,000th member? and got free returned trip ticket & hotel stay or not? 😉

Um... like that I also wan 🙂

That would be for our 100,000th member 🙂

PS. Your lion dance seem to be for Hari Raya... all green!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159651https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159651Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:39:15 GMT]]>er ... by the way, who is this 20,000th member? and got free returned trip ticket & hotel stay or not? 😉



http://i5.tinypic.com/44ty3ja.jpg\">http://i43.tinypic.com/2vn3m1z.jpg\">

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159643https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159643Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:39:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:33:56 GMT]]>It's :congrats: to all of us really, aye?


Cheers to all for helping KiasuParents achieve yet another memorable milestone. :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159640https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159640Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:33:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:26:04 GMT]]>:congrats:


:celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159632https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159632Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:26:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:18:12 GMT]]>:congrats: for spreading your wings far and wide to reach out to the ks parents. 20k is quite a feat indeed! :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159629https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159629Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:18:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:54:24 GMT]]>KiasuParents.com welcomed our 10,000th member on 15 Aug 2009, almost 2 years after we came online on 3rd Sep 2007. Today on 13 Apr 2010, we are privileged to be able to receive our 20,000th member, less than 8 months since our last 10K milestone.


While a membership of 20,000 is probably all in less than a day's work for some huge portals like Facebook, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of our members who have not only taken the trouble to register and log into KiasuParents.com, but to actively help out other parents in our community. It is this collective spirit and camaraderie that has placed us amongst the top parenting sites in Singapore, despite our total lack of any form of marketing other than through word of mouth of our members.

It is an amazing feeling for myself to know that I have over 20,000 \"family\" friends whom I can count on to give me advice and to share my parenting triumphs and frustrations... (and of course, not forgetting those notti moments 🙂 )

A most heart-felt thank you to everyone!

:thankyou:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159619https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/159619Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:54:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:33:56 GMT]]>

daisyt:
Then that is strange because I don't remember I put that date leh. :?

She is 13, not 4 months .... Chief, please help because I cannot edit. 😢
Sure you can. All members have full control over the information they display in their profiles.

Just click on your profile button and then click on the Edit tab at the top of that page.

Here's the http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/user/1775/edit for you.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52459https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52459Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:33:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:07:00 GMT]]>Then that is strange because I don't remember I put that date leh. :?

She is 13, not 4 months .... Chief, please help because I cannot edit. 😢

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52336https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52336Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:07:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:26:24 GMT]]>

daisyt:
ZacK:

Oops :!: Sorry... I didnt know you are soooooooo.... active in that folder. Wasnt referring to anyone in particular lar :oops: 😛

Actually hor, me and hubby were already actively browsing KS forum last year during the school selection time, more about T-scores. 😄


Wait a minute... But your profile states that your girl is abt 4 mths old only... Why are you active in the sec/tertiary folder then? 😐

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52319https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52319Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:26:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:16:18 GMT]]>

ZacK:
Oops :!: Sorry... I didnt know you are soooooooo.... active in that folder. Wasnt referring to anyone in particular lar :oops: 😛
Actually hor, me and hubby were already actively browsing KS forum last year during the school selection time, more about T-scores. 😄

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52315https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52315Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:16:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:43:17 GMT]]>

daisyt:
ZacK:

Hahaha... Just observe who are the more active members in the secondary - tertiary folders lor... They would probably be the ones requesting for a new folder just for adult \"kids\" kekeke LOL

Hahaha ... meeeeee ??????????? :? :? Nooooo ........ 😄

Oops :!: Sorry... I didnt know you are soooooooo.... active in that folder. Wasnt referring to anyone in particular lar :oops: 😛

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52159https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52159Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:43:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Our 10,000th member on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:36:43 GMT]]>

ZacK:
Hahaha... Just observe who are the more active members in the secondary - tertiary folders lor... They would probably be the ones requesting for a new folder just for adult \"kids\" kekeke LOL
Hahaha ... meeeeee ??????????? :? :? Nooooo ........ 😄

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52024https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52024Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:36:43 GMT