International Sign Language Day: Five Top Tips for Learning Makaton

Friday 23rd September is the International Day of Sign Languages. To celebrate this day, language experts at Preply have shared their top tips on how to learn and understand Makaton. What is Makaton? Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. It supports the development of essential

The Power of Knowledge: How a Great Education Can Change Your Life

Knowledge is one of the most powerful things that you can ever develop, and the only way to effectively develop it is through education. In fact, the right education can truly change your life, and this article aims to outline how you can engage with that kind of education. Fantastic Ways to Learn Learning is

LEGO® Shows How Creative Problem Solving can Reunite and Rebuild the World

LEGO’s global Rebuild the World campaign, now in its third year, makes its debut in Malaysia. This campaign celebrates children as the masters of creative problem solving and shows what can be achieved when they creatively overcome challenges by building and rebuilding with LEGO bricks. Every parent knows that play essential for children. 91% of parents surveyed in

App: Thinkrolls Play & Code

Thinkrolls Play & Code by Avokiddo is a logic and problem-solving app with over 800 maze-like logic puzzles, smart brain games, and a unique pre-coding platform where kids can create and play their own logic puzzles using pre-coded objects. Through interactive and engaging gameplay, this app helps children develop 8 key cognitive areas: logical thinking, problem-solving,

Event: LEGO Super Mario Competition

For families living in Malaysia, here’s a fun LEGO competition to check out with your kids… The LEGO Group invites the public to show off their creativity and passion with the all new LEGO® Super Mario™ Championship The LEGO® Super Mario™ Championship will run until October 17th and winners will walk away with prizes up

Self-Regulation Starts at Home

Inculcating the habit of self-regulation from a young age is crucial in this technological era of social media Social and digital platforms have fast become a form of mindless virtual entertainment space which allows parents to get a little breather from their children. It is space which provides endless entertainment and edutainment for children as

Mindfulness for Students

In my previous post, I wrote about the difficulties we faced with a teenager in the house, especially given the current times we are in – nothing less than a global pandemic! Since we know that mindfulness can be helpful for managing anxiety and reducing stress, I thought we should revisit this topic. Here are

Teenage Hormones, Angst, and Moodiness

So it finally happened. We now have a teenager in the house and it happened right in the midst of Covid-19. In the chaos of life during a pandemic, it caught me totally off guard, despite my awareness of what could happen. “Why is he so moody?” “Why is he crying?” “What’s the matter with

Education in a Pandemic: Virtual Threats to Online Learning

Covid-19 has changed the way our children are learning. As we adapt to new learning methods, education in a pandemic presents some challenges we must all learn to overcome. The following article is written by Evan Dumas, Regional Director, South East Asia, ‎Check Point Software Technologies. I thought it was worth sharing in light of various

6 Reasons Why Training as a Nurse Could Help You to Raise More Successful Children

Lots of us have considered a career in nursing. Nurses play a respectable and essential role in the medical community and in society as a whole. The skills we learn while training as a nurse not only help us to succeed in our future careers, but they can also be transferred to other areas of