Life must be lived as PLAY – Plato Here in the Netherlands, November starts the frenzy on children’s toys and gifts as part of the Sinterklaas tradition. Come December 5, children all over the country awaits “pakjesavond” and their much-awaited gift from Sinterklaas. With the amount of toys and gadgets everywhere, it is interesting to …
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“When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I’ve got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.” Ellsworth Kelly Award winning illustrator, Chris Riddell, advocates the importance of drawing with children. He even emphasize that drawing with children should be placed alongside reading a bedtime story. However, the importance …
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The past year have been monumental for our family. A few weeks after Mother’s Day of 2014 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The same disease that my mother succumbed to at age 49. Our lives shifted drastically as I went through series of treatments that got me going to the hospital like it was …
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Here in the Netherlands, the celebration of Chinese New year is not so common. When I asked my children what Chinese around the globe celebrate at this time of the year they were clueless and I was glad I had this activity in mind to introduce to them the Chinese New Year celebration. I presented …
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With the children growing up we have started a Christmas tradition of “making our own” Christmas decors, cards or gifts. The past two years we have slowly introduced the notion of buying less store bought gifts and last year, we have started giving them a “budget” to buy gifts for family members. Now at age …
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