During my fifth child's PTM with his kindy teacher, I could sense that she was trying very hard to be encouraging while giving me the…
pamelaJune 13, 2020
Teachers and Educators It is always discouraging to be stuck academically and because schools normally build information sequentially, the inability to understand a topic often…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
As she justified to her supervisor why she had suspended my 9-year-old son indefinitely from the classroom, my heart sank, because the more she spoke,…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
*Written in 2011 I was in the attic just two days ago looking for some books, and I chanced upon my son's P1 Chinese file.…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
Blame it on the Special Needs Child After waiting for two long years, that dreaded phone call finally came while I was teaching the technical…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
If we were more fortunate with schools, I should still be ferrying him around between therapies, the special needs school and classes to ensure he…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
If not for the current dyslexia epidemic, I would never know that my mother has a 'learning disability', for though she speaks three languages and…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
It was part of my Friday routine to go to the school's lost and found counter to ask for Big Boy's five missing water bottles.…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
How is giving a child materials that challenges him depriving him of his childhood? By igniting a child's passion in learning what he is passionate…
pamelaJune 12, 2020
