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How has your 2017 been so far? Has your life changed with all the new year resolutions you have made? Here are 3 quick tips to help your kids really ace 2017! (1) Know your end game Almost all of us…
Continue readingCome this year-end school holidays, we are bringing you a fun and jam-packed 4 days film-making workshop!
This workshop will be led by local award-winning director of "The Wayang Kids" - Raymond Tan (Brainchild Pictures) and entrepreneur Roger Tan (Core Enterprise). Together, this duo will take you through the basic foundation of film-making.
The skills and knowledge that you will gain from this workshop include:
- Scriptwriting & storyboarding (creative writing skills)
- Camera shooting techniques
- Research skills
- Communication skills
- Teamwork
You will be able to take home 2 of your very own films by the end of the workshop, with help from professional film editors!
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[🧚Useful Tips Sunday🧚]
Much of the discipline we provide our children have to do with external motivation. Whether it’s an unpleasant consequence for unwanted behaviour or positive reinforcement for the desired action, it’s still consequence-based motivation. 👈
An alternative to external motivation is to help your child become intrinsically motivated. That is, to help them understand that achieving a goal can be enjoyable in and of itself and that it’s not always about seeking a reward in exchange for a particular behaviour. 😄
Here’s how you do it:
1. Kids who are taught to value effort over results are more likely to keep trying when faced with challenges. So try to praise effort and accomplishments rather than personal traits.🤓
2. Help your kids model your intrinsic motivation by letting them see, through our actions, the satisfaction that comes from intrinsic motivation. You can also choose to share with them your personal experiences where you've found satisfaction in accomplishments without having the accomplishments to be due to rewards-seeking. 🥰
With that said though, we are not advocating that parents should then ditch all rewards system. Instead, select the motivator based on the topic and intent and that the rewards system should simply be implemented more strategically! 🤩
Have a great Sunday everyone! 😘😘😘
How to Develop Intrinsic Motivation in Your Child
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“I take away his phone and he behaves for three days and then goes right back to the back-talking and crappy attitude. I don’t understand why he doesn’t just... learn!”[Fun Fact Friday 🤓]
Fun Fact: There are between 6000 and 7000 languages in the world - spoken by 7 billion people!
Of the world's regions, Asia has the most languages - at 2,301 living languages- reflecting its 60 per cent share of the global population.
Africa has 2,138 living languages, while the Americas has 1,064 and Europe just 286 - despite its 26 per cent share of the world's population.
While the Pacific region has just 0.1 per cent of the world's population, it enjoys incredible linguistic diversity, with 18.5 per cent of the world's living languages - totalling 1,313.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/12066200/Mapped-The-7000-languages-across-the-world.html
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Music Appreciation Classes for your little ones! (Suitable for 0.5 – 4 Years Old)
Start the journey of possibilities with us at Our Music Studio and expose your child to vocal play, object/instrument exploration and creative movement that will stimulate their creative minds at a young age!
You will find yourself dancing, singing, giggling and enjoying every moment with your child which will build a strong bond between both of you which will last a lifetime!
Let your child embark on this wonderful journey to grow into a happy and confident child today!
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[🧚Useful Tips Sunday🧚]
Because snotty noses are gross and we are not interested in wiping them forever, teaching your child how to blow their noses is one life skill that we can’t wait around for them to figure out on their own. 😅
Follow this quick tip to teach them this important life skill - starting with a cotton ball! 🏐
1. Familiarise junior with the idea of blowing air out of his/her nose by getting them to move a cotton ball (or tissue) on a table with only nose air (keeping the mouth closed) 👶👧
2. Now he/she is ready to try with a tissue. Have them gently press one nostril closed while blowing with the other, then switch sides.👈👉
3. Have junior dispose of their tissue once they are done and wash hands to prevent the spread of germs. 🛁
Have fun together by making a game out of racing to see who can blow the cotton ball/tissue across the table the fastest. 🤪🤪
Ps: You will also be able to pat yourself on the back the next time the flu season comes along and this life skill becomes uber handy!
#Sneezingly yours! 🤧
How to Teach Your Kid to Blow Their Nose
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There are so many little life skills that we, as adults, have managed to master over the years. How to put on a jacket. How to tie our shoes. How to blow a bubble with our gum and snap our fingers. (O...