On parenting and education.

Just some articles I read today in the newspapers (The Sunday Times and Today on Sunday) to share and archive.

It's not i-Family time by Frances Ess in Today on Sunday

Why life skills trump book smarts by Tee Hun Ching in lifestyle, thesundaytimes

Today is so much more awesome than The Straits Times. To get an article from Today, I can simple Google and find it very easily online. On the other hand, The Straits Times makes is so hard to share articles online! You have to subscribe to view full articles (usually), and for Sunday Times, I think it's some premier thing and you can't even view an abstract. Just to get that article, I had to scan the hardcopy, stitch two photos together and upload onto my Dropbox so I can share it online.

Seriouslyy, does The Straits Times think people will steal their articles, or their subscription will drop just because they provide free online articles? Can't they generate avenue from the ads instead of something?? Blehh.


And I chanced upon this website, which chronicles a child's upbringing and the family's journeys. I don't quite know how to phrase it nicely, but anyway, it's worth checking out. This Singaporean family took their only child out of school for a year to explore the world and do community projects etc.



And I do fervently hope that the children of today are not as dependent as Hun Ching made out and have more real-life social skills than what Frances suggested. After all, they're our future and hope for a better world ><