Some time ago while I was at the supermarket queuing to pay for my purchases, a woman* with a young child, about 4 or 5 years old sitting in the trolley filled with a few items, rolled up beside me in the next queue. The child was (surprisingly for today’s children) flipping through a picture book […] Read more…

Whenever Henson and I are seen without our 7 children in tow this is the inevitable question we get asked. “Your older kids looking after the younger ones ah?” I really, really, really dislike this question. Coz the older children are not “looking after” (nor raising) the younger ones. The older siblings help to look out […] Read more…

When I am alone with my 7 children in a crowded place like shopping malls and pools, I am counting, always. Now that I have much older children, I am still counting. We had a few scares in our parenting journey. Off hand, I remember leaving behind our 6th child at a shoe shop while the […] Read more…