by Colin Goh | Aug 25, 2022 | Bilingual, Child Development, Creativity, Education, Imagination, Language, Parenting
Bilingualism is a super-power! Neuroscientific studies show that bilingual kids can parse and handle more complex situations because they’re used to interpreting multiple linguistic and social cues. Here’s a useful video from PBS explaining just how and...
by Colin Goh | Aug 18, 2022 | App, Bilingual, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Comics, Creativity, Diversity, Drawing, Education, Imagination, Language, Parenting
Guest blogger: Lim Swee Pei is a mother of 4 and she is homeschooling her kids in Singapore. She shares her experience with competitive parenting, homeschooling and struggling with Chinese. (Her kids are members of the Dim Sum Warriors Club.) Introduction We have a...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 22, 2022 | Creativity, Bilingual, Blog, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Comics, Drawing, Education, Imagination, Language, Parenting, Yen Yen
There are so many Chinese learning resources out there – how do we choose? It’s important to know what you’re getting because it’s such an investment of time and money. The worst situation is to pay for something that’s not used. We...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 18, 2022 | App, Bilingual, Blog, Chengyu, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Comics, Creativity, Dim Sum Warriors, Diversity, Doodle Date, Drawing, Education, Global Competence, Imagination, Language, Parenting, Reading
Guest contributor: Jocelyn Sara Lim-Tan is a seasoned teacher and education researcher and the mom of Jude and Joshua. In this piece, she shares her tips for building a daily routine to boost Chinese language learning for her bilingual children. Tip #1 What We...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 7, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Creativity, Diversity, Drawing, Education, Imagination, Language, Parenting
Ministries of Education all over the world are racing to equip children with competencies that are needed for the 21st century: critical thinking, communicating, collaborating, and inventive or creative thinking. Let’s talk about “creativity”. We’ve had the privilege...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jun 28, 2022 | Bilingual, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Comics, Creativity, Diversity, Drawing, Education, Events, Food, Global Competence, Home, Imagination, Language, Parenting, Reading, Yen Yen
Raising Bilingual Children Without Resentment: 8 Questions for 4 Moms The footage above was edited from the Instagram Live session. Introduction We know that being bilingual or multilingual confers great advantages in our globalised economy. Yet, we also know that...