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Helping Children Become Successful in Future: Self-Control
by Dr Shen Li Lee In the late 1960’s, Walter Mischel, a professor of psychology in Stanford, conducted a series of experiments on children that are now famously known as the “marshmallow tests” (you can read the full details of the study published in Developmental...
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Surviving the Challenges of Retrenchment in the Family
by Focus on the Family Whether you’ve been laid-off, fired, downsized, outsized or right-sized doesn’t really matter. If you’ve been forced out of a position without a new one in sight, the road you’re travelling is likely full of speed bumps, potholes and detours....
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Quick English Aid #3: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
In 1824, Charles Caleb Colton made this famous quote "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". What most people don't know is that Oscar Wilde later made an extended quote which puts things in perspective for many people, "Imitation is the sincerest form of...
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Activities to Help Children Improve their Focus and Self-Control
by Dr Shen Li Lee According to Ellen Galinsky in Mind in the Making, children need focus and self-control to help them achieve their goals. Unfortunately, focus and self-control isn’t something they naturally develop as they grow up, it is something they need to...
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Quick English Aid #2: Making Cool Sentences
The Issues with Grammar How does one learn grammar? You know the drill. We spend the first six weeks of every school year drilling and re-drilling parts of speech, phrases, clauses, types of sentences, punctuation, usage .... before realising that the students are...
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How To Get Real Face Time With Your Teen
by Focus on the Family Teenagers – don’t we sometimes wish we understood them a little better, or knew what they were thinking? Why are they always staring at their screens? Why do they keep talking about finding meaning in life? Today’s teenagers are growing up in a...
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Magic Maths Model by Kai

Self-Control Precedes Success
by Dr Shen Li Lee “Self-control precedes success” was what one of my school teachers always used to say. The real meaning of the adage used to fly right over the top of my head. It wasn’t until I learned about Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow study that I finally...
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Number Patterns on Social Media
by KC Yan If you had been on Facebook for some time, it’s very likely that you would have come across a certain type of numbers puzzles streaming your feed. Clearly, they’re not quite the typical numerical puzzles that often appear in school math books; rather,...
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Quick English Aid #1: Word Bank vs Word Cline
by Alyssa Chen Recently, a few parents approached me if I am currently providing tuition in EL since I taught English in a secondary school for the past 7 years. Though I am not providing this service at the moment, I decided to start a series of posts to provide EL...
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