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Anyone who knows us knows that my daughter is a talker but sometimes even I receive the dreaded “fine” or “I don’t remember” when I ask her how her day was. So I was totally intrigued when I [...]

“A stay-at-home dad is still considered a rare specimen.” The Diaper Chronicles In our international school, I see a lot of men who have set aside their own careers and followed their [...]

Though our careers are in Finance, my husband and I both have a solid background in marketing as well. This made preparing and joining Market Day at school a real call for us )) The kids had to [...]

Think about your day. How was it? Are these details really about your day? What would you write in your diary? Not everything goes in. So, you have to choose, you have to pay attention to your [...]

Aristotle wrote, “We are what we repeatedly do.” Merriam-Webster defines habit this way: “An acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.” When you look through [...]

To code or not to code with kids? Learning to code is not about bringing up engineers; it’s about training brains on analytical thinking. When I first gave the board game “The Robo [...]

Recently, I’ve received a question about one particular activity in “My Bright Journal”: “Why doesn’t the map include the names of the countries or continents? Parents [...]

Owning pets can actually be of great benefit to kids! It is one of the best ways for them to learn how to be gentle and compassionate. I always had pets when I was a child and got a valuable [...]

As a work-from-home mom with two kids living as an expat the second year, I have to be pretty organized to not overwhelm myself with all the things I need to do and still have a marriage and [...]

When a child spends limited time with parents, it’s especially important to find the kind of activities that help better understand emotional world of each other. For our family such [...]