Parents have an important role to play in every aspect of their children’s life. It is dangerous for parents to take on the typical “helicopter parenting” approach as that imposes detrimental effects on the wellbeing of children. Playing an active role while still giving children the space and independence to explore themselves is absolutely important. It
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The sole purpose of signing up for tuition is to seek the extra help and customised teaching that cannot be gained from school. It is a well-known fact that this kind of attention and care cannot be gained from school because one teacher cannot divide his or her attention equally for everyone. It becomes challenging
“Once there, I shall so advance with the assistance I shall there get, that my present knowledge will appear to me but as childish ignorance.” says the protagonist in Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. Hardy tells us that what we know now, would turn out to be an incomplete fact in future, or we would discover
Free advice is something that a lot of us love giving each other. We tell ourselves that we know better and give suggestions to others, and others would do the same for us in return. However, how far are this advice even accurate? A lot of us do not have a complete understanding about study
There are the good study techniques, and the bad ones, and there isn’t anything in between. The problem kicks in when one isn’t sure what works for them, because one size doesn’t fit all. We’re not cut from the same cloth and hence expecting a fixed set of techniques to work on everyone is just impractical. Private
Adolescence is a difficult period of time in everyone’s life. This is mainly because there are a lot of confusions on matters like self-identity, sexual orientation, and so on. This is the time when we think about what we like and dislike, we try to figure out ourselves and we also make choices in matters
Singapore parents are constantly concerned about which school they should send their children to. Every parent wants the best possible education for their child. This is the reason why parents ensure that they pick the best preschool, primary school, secondary school, junior college and so on, to ensure that the best is offered. Parents know that they
In Singapore, The Early Childhood and Development Agency (ECDA) is a regulatory body which serves as the authority that monitors and brings about the necessary changes in everything that is related to educational programmes for pre-schoolers. The ECDA is an autonomous agency that is monitored by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Social
We often catch ourselves feeling inadequate and insecure about everything related to us. We become extra cautious with our words and actions, which often times makes us feel restricted on the inside. Tuition teachers and teachers in school are well aware of this feeling as they themselves have been students in their lives. They can empathise with their
Teaching is a beautiful profession that encompasses life-long learning and self-development. A teacher has to have the patience to deal with all kinds of students and be humble enough to keep learning. Because a true teacher knows that there is never an end to learning. Be it a tuition teacher, or be it a school teacher, the