How to Nurture Successful Kids

I think our little experiment in alternative education in the past 12 years is showing results: our 15-year-old Samanta, who was struggling with a learning condition called dyslexia, is now in the top 11 finalists of Showdown 2012! Our 16-year-old singer-songwriter has successfully held several solo recitals to raise funds for her ticket to Nashville [...]

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Have a wonderful weekend

and a great week ahead. enjoy!

8 Things to do on Earth Hour

(and for other hours as well, why stop there?). Let’s begin with what NOT to do. Caring for our environment is not about having parties and shopping or excuse to malls. It is not an excuse for malls to make it a marketing event to drive “shopping traffic”.  I wonder the additional power generated to [...]

Happy Chinese New Year from us all!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

It’s time to stop thinking in the old mode and start living the future – a 21st century MIND that is creative, inquisitive and playful. Adopting a child’s mind in our daily lives may be the answer to our world’s miseries!  Be creative. Be playful! Happy New Year!

Technology will control us

In our home round table discussions last night, our second daughter remarked: “One day technology will our lives and robots will control us”

How to Go From Homeschool to College

  We think this is an excellent article and guide if you are planning on colleges in the US. Hope is will be helpful.

A – Z of Homeschooling: “I” Want!!!!!!!

I don’t know how many kids we have had to teach to use “please” and “thank you” in their daily communication with one another. More often than not, kids who want something would  exclaim in a loud voice, “I WANT!” and their parents would hand it to them instead of teaching them the appropriate way to [...]

A – Z of Homeschooling: H is for Happiness

Every one of us seeks happiness but every one of us seeks it in different ways. When there is unhappiness, we tend to want to displace it with material things, only to find out that they cannot really bring lasting happiness, because they break down, they get stolen, or they get outdated by newer models. [...]

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