CLIC is a concept. Not a place. Parents need to be proactive when it comes to the education of our kids. we must stop looking outside for answers and start looking within for real solutions. We have to ask ourselves what is truly important and what’s not. Learning for the 21st century is a totally [...]
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Judging from the plethora of books in the market on “How to teach your baby/child to read” and hundreds of similarly titled books, we can safely deduce that parents and educators view the ability to read (and starting as early as possible!) to be highly and profoundly important.
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A quiet mind is a clear mind.
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Our homeschooling daughter Amrita Soon, will be turning 16 next February, and she would like to visit Nashville to attend the Country Music Festival there in June 2012. As a fundraiser for the trip, she is planning a singing gig:
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Ever since Amrita discovered Miley Ray Cyrus, Taylor Swift’s (eventually a host other musicians) music at age 12, she was hooked on country music. She started learning the guitar (daddy taught her the only 3 chords that he knew – the rest, she figured them out herself with the help of YouTube!). She spent hours in [...]
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M is for movies, magic and music. Our kids are movie buffs, thanks to their dad.
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Here’s wishing you a very Selamat Hari Raya from us at CLiC. Enjoy your holidays with your family and do drive safely!
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Learning Beyond Schooling to us is not just getting out of the school building. It is about taking a totally different mindset to a shift in paradigm. Learning beyond schooling is a process (learning process even) to redefine the whole concept of education and learning in relation to our children and their environment. Sir Ken [...]
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This was a paper presented the FamilyPlace Education Forum held on July 29, 2000 by Dr Latif Kamaluddin (Reported by Lydia Teh) *We hope you find this useful and insightful coming from a parent and educationist. KVWL I don’t have any solutions or recipes for you. But what might help is to look at two things. [...]
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