News, thoughts and play inspirations

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...

1. Read a Christmas story together Christmas stories never get old ! Get your kids into the festive mood  with one (or even more) classic Christmas stories such as A...

We are so blessed to have two girls in our lives. When I was pregnant with my first one, Bean, I used to joke that I loved girls because I...

On my first trips with Bean, I had an one-page list of things to pack which I printed out from a mom's traveling blog, and filled my backpack with maybe fifty things that I thought to pack "just in case" - only to find that the backpack was so full I couldn't find where anything was! lolz. And I never used half of them anyway, so instead I carried a heavy load AND a baby around wishing that I hadn't brought so much.  

Having learned from this experience, here are a list and some tips I've accumulated to make you calm and have a relatively painless ride: