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Parental outsourcing
While a babysitter is a great way for parents to free up their time, is what skills are we teaching our children when they have their every whim met with attention?
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She sacrificed her life for her unborn child
Mrs S, a 35-year-old woman in her second pregnancy, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was then four months pregnant and was offered a termination of pregnancy by a gynaecologist. But she delayed her decision to abort the baby. |
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Declining amount of breast milk
In some mothers, the amount of breast milk expressed may decline as the baby grows older and suckles less on the breast. Breast-feeding on demand is the best way to maintain your milk supply.
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Leap Day baby? No, we want a Feb 28 birth
Some parents induced births to avoid having their babies arrive on Feb 29. |
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School's out, play's in
From acting classes to museum tours to outdoor activities, there's plenty to do this March holidays.
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School Holidays Guide
Want your children to become mature and independent thinkers? Give them a headstart by letting them attend these workshops where they can pick up important tools from memory techniques to oral skills and critical thinking. |
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What mums-to-be need to know
Pregnant women should not use sharp objects or sew on the bed. Just one of many pregnancy myths?
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Boys to men
Dressing up a tween can be a tall order. Yeo Qianhua visits five stores with 14-year-old Shawn, his Mum and a stylist. Here are the results. |
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Five different get-ups
Fashion stylist Jerome Awasthi went shopping with housewife, Sally Ng, and her son at five stores - Topman, Bossini, Pull And Bear, Fat Face, and Fox - for five different get-ups.
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Swing high swing low
They may be young but they sure can swing. Find out more about these young golfers. |
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The miracle contraceptive
The affordable Mirena IUS is almost fool-proof and its benefits clearly outweigh the mild side-effects, MELISSA HENG finds out.
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Bookshop or daycare?
Shop assistants turn babysitters when parents leave their kids unattended in stores. |
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Spoilt, selfish and suicidal
Although better-educated, products of the one-child policy are more likely to be dysfunctional.
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BabyCare Festival 2008
Event listing: From 21 - 23 March, come to Singapore's largest baby extravaganza. |
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He entered room and started crying
He was a 7-year-old who did not want to go to school. So what did his mother do? She hauled him to Juvenile Court to seek a Beyond Parental Control (BPC) order.
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Could we have avoided sending son to boy's home?
AT 14, Gerrard (not his real name) was throwing his life away. He was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day and drinking heavily. He stopped attending school, did not sit for his exams and was on the verge of getting expelled. |
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We've no choice, because...
Three mothers appeared in Juvenile Court last Friday to complain that their children, aged 14 and 15, were Beyond Parental Control (BPC). All wanted Magistrate Wong Li Tein to issue warrants of arrest for the teens, who were not in court.
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Generation 's': seductive, sensual & savvy
More girls here are becoming sexually active at a younger age - some as young as 10. |
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Girls behaving badly
Some girls here are getting wilder and getting into trouble with the law. They are getting arrested for causing serious hurt and rioting. They also join gangs and experiment with sex at a younger age, some as young as 10. Joan Chew, Chia Mei Liang, He Xingying and Ong Dai Lin report on young girls running wild.
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She joined for fun, but leaving was not so easy
Teen's newfound 'friends' would not let her go without paying a 'penalty'. |
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They cut themselves to cope with hurt
Teenage girls are more likely than boys to practise self-mutilation, say counsellors.
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Joining the gangs: Where things get ugly
Vicious fights, taking and selling drugs, and providing sex in return for protection are the norm. |
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New TV channel for kids
Singtel's mio TV offers a brand new 24-hour multiplatform family channel for young audiences from pre-schoolers to kids aged six to 10 from today. -AsiaOne
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It's mostly joy for foster parents
When babies are abandoned, or children have to be separated from their parents because of abuse, neglect or other reasons, it is people like Ms Saharah whom the authorities turn to. |
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