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For the past two weeks Citrus has had a crush on a boy in her preschool. An older boy, perhaps already five.
Every night she is excited about the idea of seeing him the next day although her attempts to talk or play with him are usually thwarted. Sadly for her, he usually plays with the other [...]
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To celebrate the end of the New Year festivities my daughter’s class made tang yuan, or glutinous rice balls. All of the preschoolers rolled the colored paste into little piles of balls which were then whisked away to the school canteen for cooking in a light syrup with pandan leaves or ginger.
This was a recipe that everyone [...]
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The Army War College released new research last week examining the effects of multiple deployments on adolescents.
The report confirms several of the well-known coping mechanisms used by military families dealing with deployments — keep busy! — but there were some interesting findings as well.
They found that the largest factors that help children cope with deployment were, [...]
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Our daughter’s preschool just posted a couple hundred photos of her class celebrating a few of the recent Muslim, Chinese and Hindu holidays. They colored in pictures of mosques to celebrate Hari Raya, the end of Ramadan. Created lanterns and ate pomelos for the Mid-Autumn (or Mooncake) Festival.
And for Deepvali, the Festival of Lights? Something [...]
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