Little Day Out’s Bite-Sized Parenting series offers little nuggets of advice and tips from experts on a variety of parenting issues. It addresses different ages, from toddlers to tweens, and topics which are of concern to parents and families.
Bite-Sized Parenting
Bite-Sized Parenting: Alternative Ways To Tell Kids To Be Careful
“Be careful!” How often do you catch yourself saying that to your kids? Chances are that you’ve said it a few times recently along with the words “stop that!” or even just the word...
Retrospective: Best Parenting Stories Of 2022
Parenting is never easy and each year brings with it new lessons. As another year passes and we stand at the the start of a new one, we take a look back at some...
Bite-Sized Parenting: How To Teach Children To Appreciate What They Have
It’s hard to be content. After all, we usually tend not to appreciate what we have until they are taken away from us. The current “Heightened Alert” phase is a grim reminder of the...
Bite-sized Parenting: 5 Ways To Jumpstart Awesome Conversations With Your Kids
It’s frustrating when a conversation ends before it even gets started. Are you looking to go beyond “How was your day?” with your kids - and the one-word answers the question invariably elicits?
Good news...
Bite-Sized Parenting: What Is Parental Burnout And How To Cope With It
The parenting journey is filled with ups and downs, and for the most part, parents are able to manage the stresses that come along with the role.
However, parents are human too and there can...
Bite-Sized Parenting: 3 Ways To Help Your Perfectionist Child
For some children, mistakes might be really hard to accept. They might also be easily frustrated when things don’t go to plan, or feel very stressed up when they fail at a challenging task....
Bite-Sized Parenting: Encouraging Good Work Ethic In Our Children
Part of parenting involves helping our children with their perennial problems and flaws, on top of our own flaws. One area that is a constant work-in-progress is developing work ethic in our children (and...
Bite-Sized Parenting: Encouraging The Growth Mindset In Our Children
“I can’t do this.” “It’s too hard!” “Can we not have exams?”
Do these laments sound familiar?
After the recent mid-year examinations accompanied by a whole lot of tears, whining, complaining, I wonder if our children...
Bite-Sized Parenting: 5 Ways To Respond When Your Child Talks Back
Whether you have a toddler, threenager, tween or teen at home, they might display similar behaviour and start “talking back”. When your child talks back to you as a parent, it can end up...
Bite-sized Parenting: What To Read – Singapore Books For Preschoolers & Primary School Kids
There are increasingly more children’s books set in the local, Singapore context. Some of them address issues which local children face (what can be more local than the dreaded PSLE?), while others are hinge on...
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Bite-Sized Parenting: 5 Parenting Books For Toddlers & The Preschooler Stage
Parents of two to six year olds – your patience might often be tested while your little ones challenge their boundaries. Is that usual? How do we manage the “terrible toddler” phase? We have...
Parent Review: BenQ MindDuo Eye-Care Study Table Lamp
My daughter will be taking her PSLE next year. With the expected increase in her workload, I worry about her eyes getting strained. To protect her eyesight, having a good task light is crucial....
Bugaboo Butterfly Review: We Check Out The Travel-Friendly City Stroller
Newly-minted parents looking for strollers might want to check out the all new Bugaboo Butterfly – a one-second fold city stroller. As its name suggests, the new Bugaboo Butterfly is a lightweight, single-hand collapsible...
Supermom Dawn Sim (@thatmomoffour) Shares Why She Sent Her 4 Daughters To My First...
Dawn Sim (@thatmomoffour) is a supermum, mumtrepreneur and mum to four beautiful girls. When it came time to choose a pre-school for all her daughters, especially one which could get her children ready for...
We Tried Three: Parent Review Of 3 Ting Xie Apps
Is the weekly Tīng Xiě or Chinese Spelling tests challenging? Are your children reluctant to be quizzed?
Perhaps using paper and pen may be the most common route, some parents have also used other methods...
