childcare centres

Mother shocked to find her daughter had suffered a pulled elbow.

Research has shown that two years of quality preschool can have effects lasting through to the other end of your child's schooling.

Parents will have 200 new childcare centres to choose from by the year 2018, according to Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Halimah Yacob.

Two hundred more childcare centres will be ready in about five years' time, 100 more than what was announced earlier in March.

As working adults, we definitely want the best of the working world - a good paying job with benefits and the weekend off. Most of the time, we suppress the thought of whether we are truly contented with the job we have.

Confucius once said, “It’s better to play than to do nothing”. As we grapple with time, play is possibly the last thing on our mind. However, the focus here is not on us but on our little one. Does he have time to play? Are parents to be accused of skimping Junior’s playtime in the name of enrichment lessons?

French philosopher Rene Descartes once said, ‘It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well’. Using the mind well is what the theory of multiple intelligences is partly based on.