What to Do When Your Multilingual Child Goes to A School in The Majority Language?
In the Netherlands, kids start school when they turn four (yes, kids start school at any time of the year). As my daughter is turning 4...
Tiny Habits for Our Multilingual Journey in 2016
It's almost that time of the year again...you know, the time to make New Year's resolutions. No matter how you feel about resolutions,...
All I Want for Christmas Is...
I love Christmas. We are a few days into December already and Christmas decorations are showing in shops and window displays. So what is...
Now We're Back (from HK)!
Apologies for the silence as we were recovering from the 5 weeks in Hong Kong. We'd been battling with jetlag, teething (of course!), the...
How to Survive A Trip Visiting Overseas Grandparents?
Like many expat families, we have to take a trip to visit the overseas grandparents once in a while. And we've been in Hong Kong for 2+...
Learn to Count in Cantonese
Experts suggest that you can introduce the idea of numbers when your child is as young as 12 months by counting small sets of items. So...
How to Video Chat with Grandparents
Mid Autumn Festival is just around the corner and it is a festival that is all about family reunion and togetherness. But if you're an...
Mooncakes, Lanterns And More...
Mid Autumn Festival (中秋節; Jyutping: zung1 cau1 zit3) is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar...
End of Summer (Cantonese) Fun!
Can you believe we are already more than halfway through August? Guess time does fly when one is having fun. Let's squeeze in some more...
Mommy is tired! Now what?
We are raising our children trilingually and I speak the two minority languages (Cantonese and English) to our two young children....