Families who vacation together, stay together There’s one crucial insight that is often ignored when planning for a vacation with young children. Many parents, exhausted from their duties as indentured servants to their preschool masters, can’t wait to off on a family holiday and stretch out while their kids are happily digging in the sand or looking … Read more
Summer break doesn’t mean it’s time for your child’s brain to take a break What is known is that its origins go back to the 19th century. Whether or not the current school calendar was first built around the agricultural one (and the need for children to work on the farm during the summer months) … Read more
After-school programs give kids a safe place to exercise their brains – and their bodies – while having fun When I was a kid, I had a few after-school activities available to me: Girl Scouts, high school track, summer camp…and not much more than that. But today, the possibilities for children can be overwhelming. Depending on … Read more
Counseling for parents and couples who have difficulty adjusting to life as expats If you’re not from this country, then you’ve almost certainly left another life behind you, a whole support base of family and friends back home who used to be your entire social world. For whatever reasons caused you to settle on this new … Read more
The importance of letting children be children Children are fascinating—the way they think, joke, create and even manipulate. The increased pressure for early childhood teachers to introduce academics earlier has become a great debate. Do we push what was once grade one material to kindergarten and what was once kindergarten material to pre-kindergarten? Most parents … Read more
A 15-year-old girl uses her personal experience in a class project to open a discussion on a still-taboo topic Nguyet Duc is currently studying at EISHCMC. At the end of the 10th grade, she will finish her International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (IBMYP), in which all students must complete a year-long assignment called the Personal … Read more
“Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein During the first five years of a child’s life, they learn more than at any other time in their life. That’s why it’s so important to ‘get it right’ in the early years. So, ‘Where do we begin?’ I hear you ask. ‘All they do … Read more
Room to Read sets out to make sure every child has an opportunity to learn Although little-known, Room to Read Vietnam (RTRV) is one of the oldest NGOs in Vietnam and has been making a positive impact on thousands of Vietnamese children since 2001. However, this year RTRV was catapulted into the spotlight when two … Read more
The importance of computational thinking at an early age When you think back over the last hundred years, the technological achievements that we’ve accomplished have been incredible. Transport, communication and medicine – these are just a few areas that have seen considerable change. So, it begs the questions: What will we witness over the next … Read more
The secrets to unfolding the super-intelligence in children I once sat in on a psychology class taught by a visiting lecturer who made an extraordinary parenting claim that I’ve never forgotten. I can’t say whether or not her story was true, but it still fascinates me to this day: what she said was that she’d … Read more
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