News, thoughts and play inspirations

The Christmas season is joyous, but when it comest to children, finding a suitable gift idea for toddlers can also be a source of significant stress and deliberation. In 2020, it is not enough to walk down a random Target toy aisle, pick up a colorful toy set and consider your shopping trip complete. Especially if it matters to you that your gift to a toddler is treasured, it would be upsetting to learn that your gift may be played with for a very short time before collecting dust on the shelf. Even worse, if you discover that the toy you’ve gifted is deemed unsuitable by their parents, and is binned, donated or recycled the minute you walk out the door.

HAPPY MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL! Here in Hong Kong as well as many other countries in Asia,  Mid Autumn festival is the most special time for the little ones! From a...

If there’s one parenting lesson that the events of the past few weeks have taught us, it is the importance and urgency of teaching kids about tolerance, acceptance, kindness, and  every human being equally and with love. 

The following books have been recommended by parents worldwide and they are suitable for kids as young as three, which is unanimously agreed to be to be the perfect time to start this type of conversation. 

I hope this list is helpful! If you have further books to recommend, please let me know by commenting below or joining our conversations on Facebook or Instagram! 

I remember the first time my daughter was gifted an (almost) wordless book - the classic "Goodnight Moon" board book. I took the one year old to bed and started flipping the...

“Most children will probably lose their imaginativeness and vivacity as they mature, but some will not” - said the famous abstract artist Mark Rothko, a pioneer in art education for children.  If I...

But judgment aside, it’s also a very interesting article that reflects the tension facing our generation of parents: When it comes to play, do we go forward or backward?Do we engineer for them a childhood reminiscent of our own – with lesser “stuff”and more child play experiences independent from "stuff"?  (I say “engineer” because it has to be a conscious effort -- we'd have to consciously stop ourselves from inadvertently too many cheap, unneeded things for them) Or, do we look forward and apply the latest research and technologies to ensure they are ahead of the game?  

Our founder & creative director Hai Anh Vu sat down with Saadia Usmani at RTHK Radio 3 to share how she started making quiet books, her thoughts on digital entertainment...