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 be...

“Most children will probably lose their imaginativeness and vivacity as they mature, but some will not” - said the famous abstract artist Mark Roth...

Little Bean's Toy Chest's founder & creative director Hai Anh Vu sat down with host Saadia Usmani at RTHK Radio 3 to share how she started making quiet books, her thoughts on digital entertainment for young children, and her aspirations in 2020.

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: 

I am the youngest child in my family and I have one big sister four years elder. Since when I was a child, my mom has always told me the funny story about my sister when I was born. Apparently she thought I came from the hospital as she cried and and insisted that my mom should return me to the nurses to come home with her! Well, it's been well thirty years since I knew that story but I never fully empathized with my sister as much as this year, when I expected my second baby.

Becoming a big sister/brother is a big change and having the first child Bean make me realize how scary it could be ... So I decided to make a little play book for Bean which would help her visualize how it is to have a baby arriving.