Tag: parenting

• What We Learned from A Month of Travelling in Japan with Young Children

  

  In May and June 2026, my family of 4 (2 adults + 2 children, aged 4 and 1) spent a month travelling through Japan (+Hong Kong and Helsinki). We went to a mix of major Japanese cities and chill seaside towns, living in highly residential areas, trying to live as the locals do. The experience…

• Stepping Into the Void

  

  In the initial months after our boy was born, one constant thought loomed in my mind, “Why would anyone make the mistake of having more than one?” It wasn’t just that life with a newborn was hard and hectic; it was that the whole stretch from labour to recovery was difficult in ways that no…

• The Myth of the Resilient (Third Culture) Kid

  

  It’s mid-morning in Singapore and already the air is throttled with suffocating heat. Just around the corner from the bustle of Orchard Road is a school, its sprawling campus an oasis from the frenzy of the city. Today, school is not in session. The campus is muted, with only the rustling of towering palm fronds…