My 6-year-old gave me a performance evaluation of my parenting recently. I don’t mean the emotion-driven “You’re the meanest mom ever” because I said no to eating cookies for breakfast, or the exaggerated “You’re the BEST mom ever” because...
Yoga is a great way to pass the time indoors while keeping your kids moving and stretching. The Bay Area shelter in place order has definitely been hard on families, but as we enter into the second week, we’re...
Dear parents of toddlers,
I'm asking you kindly, parent to parent, to please keep your younger kids off the big kids’ playgrounds. And slides. And bouncy houses. These structures have age ranges (usually 2-5 years old or 5 years and...
Do you have a budding math whiz on your hands? Or perhaps you'd like to further cultivate your future engineers/astronauts' potential in their path towards their dream careers? Look no further than Maths@Singapore, a Singapore-based math education center focusing...
Lisa Collum is an author, educator, and mother of four on a mission to empower parents to give their children the education they deserve. We recently sat down with her to answer some pressing homeschooling questions we had.
SFBAM: What...
For many Asian American parents in the San Francisco Bay Area, the dream of sending their children to a top University of California (UC) school feels more uncertain than ever.
Parents in cities like Palo Alto, Cupertino, Fremont, and San...
"Many parents intuitively understand that ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids. We see the aggressive temper tantrums when the devices are taken away and the wandering attention spans when children are not perpetually stimulated by...
Golf came into our family life two years ago. My husband went from dedicated BBQ Dad (a National Carne Asada Championship winner, to be exact) to a golfer Dad. When the transition between BBQ and golf happened, I didn't...
We moms have had some pretty intense conversations with our children over the last few months. We’ve had to talk about why we can no longer go to school, the museum, playground, to a friend’s or even to visit...
It all started innocently enough. Pretty much since the day she sprouted them, people have been commenting on my daughter's beautiful, curly blonde hair. "She’s so cute! Where did she get her curls? How often do you cut her...
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