Category: Parenting

  • Ways To The Heart

    Kai is making it very difficult for me to leave his room when I tuck him in to bed: Me: Do you want to hug your pillow Kai? Kai: Are you a pillow Papa? Me: No. Why? Kai: Cos I want to hug you, Papa!

  • Papa made up this song

    I felt strangely proud this morning when I drove Kai to preschool. The car stereo had yesterday switched to The Hossan Leong Show CD (in the CD changer since 2009). When I started the car after strapping him into his kiddie seat, this song started playing, and Kai was mesmerized, and when it ended, asked…

  • These three words

    So our son wakes me up at 3am last night, asking to do potty. Not only that, he asks to be carried to the bathroom because “I don’t want to walk, you have to carry me, Papa”. Then, while doing his “standing potty”, he makes conversation. Mostly about how the water cistern in our bathroom…

  • Filipino grandma’s reading of “Go The F*** To Sleep”

    Our friend Pam alerted us to this hilarious reading of Adam Mansbach’s “Go The F*** To Sleep”.

  • Let’s Rock Elmo

    Hasbro’s Let’s Rock Elmo rocked the Toy Fair in New York earlier this year. I’ll leave it to the video presentation made at the Fair, and leave it to you to decide who is potentially more irritating, Elmo or the presenter: Hasbro very kindly gave Kai a basic set (without the extra instruments) last week…