My children returned home today telling me that there was a performance presented on the stage, emphasizing the need to keep some of the pocket money for other use...there is however a better money management system for kids and adults..So

I would like to share this report I just read on "The 10 Most Educated Countries in the World".  It seems that there is high positive relation between the country's wealth (GDP) with the population's literacy.

If you want to destroy your worse enemy, provide him/her everything. That will deprive your enemy the opportunity to learn and develop independence. In the end he/she will be a useless person. Unfortunately, this is what many parents doing to their children.... If parents continue to indulge our children with "luxury", without giving them the opportunities to grow and learn, they are eventually slowly and surely DESTROYING their beloved children.?....In summary, parents, please DO NOT indulge your children. Let them take up responsibilities, tasks and give them the opportunity to learn and build up the necessary phsyical and mental skills. Our children will benefit and learn from every activities they do, no matter how insignificant and lowly they are

This advice was picked up when I was watching this cartoon video with my children, with the intention to get my children interested with Chinese. In the end, I picked up this learning and find it most useful for my current status and, I believe, useful to many city dwellers.

This pebble demo illustrates how a simple money management system that helps everyone - smart or not so smart, to achieve financial freedom.

MOE annouces the emphasis of value driven learning for our children in Singapore in School curriculum from 2012.  Together with NIE, MOE has even designed a toolkit for Character and Citizenship Education.

The new program will bring together the current civics and moral education, national education and social and emotional learning programmes, building its foundation on the core values of responsibility, resilience, respect, integrity, care and harmony.

Special thanks to my friend, Avinash, who shares this inspring story of two men

Shortly 15 min after playing Money Champ boardgame with a group of children, Chloe (not her real name) learned the advantage of delayed gratification....this is one of the key lesson from Robert Kiyosaki....

Kids Hub promotes the holistic development of children.  But, what is the meaning of holism and what is holistic education?

Holism Holism (from ὂλος holos, a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) cannot be determined or explained by its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.

Holistic Education Holistic education is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, to the natural world, and to humanitarian values such as compassion and peace. Holistic education...

Introducting Howard Gardner Howard Gardner's work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education - especially in the United States. Here we explore the theory of multiple intelligences; why it has found a ready audience amongst educationalists; and some of the issues around its conceptualization and realization. "I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place. Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves. The performance of...