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Dec 19, 2006

Isaak’s Quick Links - 19 December 2006

- Two articles by Steve Remington of Inside Fatherhood on SAHD Burnout and how to overcome it. Good read even if you’re not a stay-at-home dad yet. Then you’ll know the issues that you might face and think of ways to overcome them.

- An interesting way to make your son show some responsibility … just by making him the chef of the day in making the soup for the whole family and it includes deciding and buying the ingredients. Hmmm … might try that with Matthew when he’s older.

- Here’s something about raising bilingual children. In Singapore, most of us are bilingual with English and our Mother Tongue (be it Mandarin, Tamil or Malay). However, I’m one of those who didn’t really study that hard during Mother Tongue lessons and my Mandarin is not that wonderful. I’m able to converse with someone, but I’m not able to write. And it’s the same for Wendy. Hopefully, Matthew will be able to do both languages well when he goes to school, but then again, we only speak to him in English when we’re at home. (via Parent Hacks)

- Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had) Before Marrying
15 questions that all soon-to-be married couples should ask before marrying. For Wendy and myself, we didn’t exactly sit down and ask each other questions, but I guess in the course of everything, we did, somehow, ask each other the majority of the questions listed.

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