the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
Today was my daughter’s last day of kindergarten. She was teary knowing that all of her friends will be scattering to different primary schools in January and I felt a little sad knowing that I would not see many of the parents and children we have known for all of our time in Singapore. New [...]
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Last night we answered the question: What if you invite a K2 (Kindergarten) class of 50 children to a birthday party and most of them attend? The answer is that about 90 people will come including parents, siblings, nannies, a teacher, and one or two of their neighbors. It takes a village so we hired [...]
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A week before Chinese New Year, my daughter’s Mandarin teacher asked me if I would come to class and demonstrate how to make an apple pie. My daughter once brought a small pie for show and tell and now the class was reading a story in Mandarin about a girl who travels the world looking for [...]
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After all of the effort looking into kindergarten for our daughter next year, it looks as though we have come full circle back to her current school. The international schools are good but I think that we may have confused cost with quality. In the end we really want a school that will continue to help [...]
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We have been school shopping for the last several weeks and at this point we are probably over-thinking every decision, running the risk of becoming über-parents, as we used to refer to the neurotic people who post messages on the DC Urban Moms and Dads group in Washington DC. Sure, there were a few helpful people but they [...]
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