Mid-week Links

Don’t Just Teach, Help Kids Learn

November 13, 2012
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Don’t Just Teach, Help Kids Learn

Mid-Week Links It’s all about unschooling and homeschooling this week. Malaysian homeschooler, 17-year-old Petrina Phua, writes about her homeschooling experience and what it was like to transition to taking the IGCSE exams. She went on to score straight As for all her eight subjects. “I remember that there were days when I would do...

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“No” To Spanking Children

September 7, 2012
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“No” To Spanking Children

Mid-Week Links This week, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canada’s most prestigious medical journal, called on parents, lawmakers and doctors to put an end to the practice of spanking children. The journal called it “an anachronistic excuse for poor parenting from the statute book”. Using harsh physical punishment to discipline children – including smacking,...

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Support For Breastfeeding In Public

July 20, 2012
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Support For Breastfeeding In Public

Mid-Week Links   More than 200 breastfeeding mothers descended on a cafe in Bristol earlier this month in support of one of their own who claimed she was verbally abused by a waitress for suckling her baby in public. When word spread about her ordeal, a Facebook page set up by mothers calling themselves...

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50 Superfoods For Pregnant Mums

July 21, 2010
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50 Superfoods For Pregnant Mums

Mid-Week Links While we all know that breastfeeding benefits baby and mother, it also has advantages for the greater community. It reduces infant health care costs because breastfed babies have fewer illnesses and hospitalisations. Employers, too, gain as parents of breastfed babies don’t need to take as much time off work to care for...

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Unschooling: The Lies And The Truth

June 10, 2010
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Unschooling: The Lies And The Truth

Mid-Week Links ABC News’ Nightline earlier this month profiled an unschooling family from New Hampshire. The Martins (who appear in our blogroll as The Sparkling Martins) threw open their doors and showed the world how they unschool. While watching the video, however, I could not help but feel that the network seemed to have...

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Homeschoolers: Which Way To Go?

June 3, 2010
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Homeschoolers: Which Way To Go?

Mid-Week Links For homeschoolers in Malaysia, a big question is which route to take to get a place in college or university. David Tan speaks with the CEO of Life College in Malaysia and explains the different options available to homeschoolers here. David also looks at the way homeschooling has gained in popularity and...

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Breastfeeding Around The World

May 14, 2010
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Breastfeeding Around The World

Mid-Week Links In my experience, people have generally been very supportive of breastfeeding in public here in Malaysia. Still we’ve heard stories from different parts of the world of mums being harassed when breastfeeding their babies in public places. Here is a collection of notes about attitudes towards public breastfeeding in different countries around...

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Spanking Makes Kids Act Out More

May 6, 2010
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Spanking Makes Kids Act Out More

Mid-Week Links Last month we broached the subject of why it’s not a good idea to hit your child. This week, Time Magazine reports on a new study that provides the strongest evidence yet that children’s short-term response to spanking may make them act out more in the long run. When it comes to...

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Respond To Your Baby’s Cries

April 22, 2010
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Respond To Your Baby’s Cries

Mid-Week Links Childcare expert Penelope Leach says that recent brain research proves that babies who are left to cry for prolonged periods are at risk of suffering damage to their developing brains, which reduces their capacity to learn. Young babies do not have the mental equipment to “learn” to go to sleep at the...

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Homeschoolers Grow Into Happy Adults

April 14, 2010
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Homeschoolers Grow Into Happy Adults

Mid-Week Links Great news for homeschoolers this week. Not only do homeschoolers outperform their school-going peers, homeschooled adults are more socially-engaged, have higher incomes and are happier than their contemporaries who went to school, according to a new study titled Fifteen Years Later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults from the Canadian Centre for Home Education. The...

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Breast Milk, Dyslexia And The Internet

April 7, 2010
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Breast Milk, Dyslexia And The Internet

Mid-Week Links Milk is the main source of nutrition for all babies, and the milk produced by mothers is tailored specially to the newborn’s needs. Here’s one more article explaining why all mothers should breastfeed. Mid-Week Smile. TRU-BREAST: Marketed here as a revolutionary new method of infant feeding that is ready in an instant...

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Good News For Breastfeeding Mums

March 31, 2010
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Good News For Breastfeeding Mums

Mid-Week Links Mothers will soon be able to legally breastfeed in public in Taipei, thanks to a new law that will be passed tomorrow. A fine of between NT$5,000 and NT$30,000 may be imposed on those who try to stop a mother from breastfeeding in a public place. Score one for breastfeeding families everywhere....

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Homeschooling, Love And Validation

March 24, 2010
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Homeschooling, Love And Validation

Mid-Week Links David Tan has a great post on how homeschoolers can find their way from homeschool curriculums to major exams like the O levels, SATs or the IGCSEs. Homeschooling mum Swee Bin tells her story. Attachment Parenting International last week launched its Feed with Love and Respect blog carnival, of which Parenting Works’...

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