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What To Do When Your Child Comes Back with BluTac in His Hair?

Last week, my #2 had BluTac in his hair and he didn’t know how he got it, who stuck it in his hair, and didn’t even realised he had BluTac in his hair until he washed his hair.  It was a moment of panic when we both thought I had to snip away a bunch of hair.  I tried to
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Learning an Instrument

Of my three children, one is learning the piano and one is learning the violin.  As for myself, I learned the piano when I was a child and managed to finish Grade 8.  I was the only one in my family who learned an instrument.  My siblings were not interested.  The reason why I wanted my children to learn an
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How My Boys Learned How To Ride A Bicycle

My husband was the person who told me about this thing called the “pedal-less” bike, which was supposed to be good for learning how to ride a two-wheel bicycle without the crutch of the traditional training wheels. We were intrigued by the idea and thought it would be cool to get one of those bikes for our boys. I think,
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Primary 1 Adjustments

I figured perhaps there would be parents out there who have kids who are going to Primary One next year (or soon) who may like to know what kind of adjustments they can expect come January. I have been through the P1 “baptism of fire” once and it was quite a culture shock for both the kid and the mom.
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