by Vivian Ho | Jul 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
At age 11, my grandfather came to Singapore to see me at my boarding school. He told me, “Study hard, and come home as a doctor so you can take care of me.” Little did I know at that time, this goal of having a doctor in the family was in part a cultural construct, a...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
When your child has health concerns, you are stressed. And when you are stressed, you just want things to be easy. Sometimes being authentic isn’t easy – sometimes it seems as if authenticity will lead to conflict or even to a connection that you don’t have time to...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
At a school event or a birthday party or a sports practice, another parent asks in that confidential whisper, how is your child doing? The real question is whether this parent really wants to know. That’s because truly explaining how your child is doing would take...
by Rosemary Lokhorst | Jul 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I was growing up, my dad traveled a lot. Once when I was 9 years old, he came home from a trip with a big box and asked me to come into his office. He said that inside the box was something he and I could share. It was a Commodore 64… a computer! Not only could...
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