Overweight children are always making the news.
What we seldom hear about is skinny kids. The kind of kids that mothers with chubby kids long to feed and one look from the doctor or nurses almost always mean a prescription for vitamins.
Mothers of skinny kids love to trade dramatic stories of how poor our kids’ appetites […]

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On congested roads, having a small compact car is really the best solution.
Remember how you sometimes wish you drive a Smart car when finding parking is a nightmare (even though you probably hate the way it looks on the road)?
But if you have more than 1 child, the size of the interior will be an […]

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One of the highlight of my eldest child’s kindergarten in Seria was her school trip to the Anduki Airport, which service mainly flights to offshore oil and gas facilities, last year.
Her classmates and her had the opportunity of climbing up the control tower and visiting the industrial equipment-filled hangar and sitting on real helicopter seats […]

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We try to have at least one purely vegetarian meal in a week - for better health reason.
Luckily two of my children are fond of vegetables. Sometimes despite our coaxing for them to take more meat, they would insist that we serve them “Some more spinach please!”.
Actually, there are times we felt guilty when we […]

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Some days my heart pounded like a slegdehammer and my breathing so fast I could burst any spirometers, after an hour or so of my usual routine - much like running uphill.
Returning home on days when we are out early could already raise my heart rate, being reminded of the long list of chores waiting.
It […]

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