Encouragement and Support for Christian Stay-at-Home Mothers
It is 2018. Man has developed and is continuing to develop more and more gadgets to help us save time and energy, especially while doing household chores. But, are gadgets a boon or a bane in our modern lifestyle? No wonder the fear of being taken over by robots is real! Read more…
Do we always do the right thing regardless of who is watching? Or do we only do the right thing when people are watching? Or to put more accurately, only when important people are watching? To put it bluntly, are we hypocrites? Read more…
How we celebrated Chinese New Year as children influences how we celebrate and view it as adults. Certain traditions associated with it fill us with joy and anticipation, while others fill us with dread. Our childhood experiences affect our decision to carry on or ditch those traditions in our own families. Read more…
Children are natural hoarders. And they are not born knowing how to be organised, Therefore, teaching our children to declutter is an important life skill we need to teach them, on top of knowing how to cook and clean. Read more…
The teen years is an unpredictable season. One moment you think you have it nailed and the next you feel like an absolute failure.
And because what “works” today may not the next, I don’t think it is responsible of me to share it as if it is even a solution. It could very well have been a fluke shot. So how now? Read more …. Read more…
How many people have been able to successfully make a sustainable and viable career in the performance and visual arts scene in Singapore? Viable meaning able to support a basic nuclear family comfortably. Are we too practical a lot? Or too unimaginative a lot? Or is it only for the young and single people? Read more…
We are living in the 21st Century. Do we still need a Titus 2 Woman in our lives? In this day where any information can easily be had in one click, it may seem that there is no longer a need for a Titus 2 Woman in our lives. But I beg to differ. Sure we can get information easily now. But there is nothing like a **real-life** person you can share life with. Read more…
After going through PSLE* with 5 very different children, with different strengths and weaknesses, many have asked me how *I* did it. Well, for starters, *I* did not do it. As one child petulantly exclaimed many years back when she heard that I had been asked to speak at a PSLE sharing session to help other homeschool […] Read more…
God always uses our pain and trials not just to mould us but to help us help others. So, out of Katie Horner’s pain came her book, In Spite of Myself, a 4-week Bible Study to guide us on how to intentionally chose praise in all situations. She used the pain she walked through and the lessons she faced to share how we all can see God in everything we go through. Read more…
As I write and share how things are done in our large homeschooling family, I am overcome with gratitude to the Lord. As you know in Why So Many Children, I did not want to even have one child and yet God has changed my mind and heart to accept as many as He sends. And in doing so, He has stretched and grown me so much. Read more…