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which school is it? I am keen to know their program too.

Oh yes, MK, after reading the book, do share some of the important point about the book to your son. The book acts as a "third party" too. You act as a messenger of the book. However, I would suggest for yourself to use the techniques that you be sharing to your son on yourself first. Because if the...

The book "I am gifted so are you" is good. The content helps. As for their bootcamp, I have friends who are trainers there and has several friends who went through their training. In fact I have a friend who is a mentor for some of Adam Khoo's trainers. After knowing more about them, my personal opi...

We are discussing similar question in the tread "Student's potential are being limited". Lets discuss there? My last message there may address a little if your issue. Basically, just my personal opinion, such camp that you see in newspaper does work, but not to everyone. The main issue is the envior...

I believe all man (regardless of age) are driven by purpose. We get more self motivated to do things properly when we understand the importance and purpose behind it. And in brief, we can classify purpose into 2 categories, pursue pleasure and evade pain. For example, in the normal working environme...

Its good that there is constant two-way communication between you and your children. Sometimes it is not easy to teach our own kids because the role of parents is actually not to teach or coach, but to take care and love our children. Most parents whom i know, who took up 2 roles at the same time, o...

Hello mk,

May i find out from you, in a typical conversation between your child and yourself, with regards to school work, how many percent of the time do you ask your chilld question and how many percent of the time do you give your child instruction?

Regards
Lin

Yup! especially now as the governement here in Singapore is promoting entreperneurship, creativity and spontaneity is certainly important. Having many computer-based lessons do help to pull interest into learning and may adds creativity, but there is no human touch! I grew up in a very computer base...

Worse still, I have a pri 5 student, whose mum gave him extra home assignment so as to keep him busy while she is away to work... The kid lost interest totally in his studies and felt tied down with too much work. The kid complete his work for the sake of doing so. Maybe the education system should ...

Being a Maths and Science tutor for primary and Secondary for 6 years, I realised that students perform better if they discover answers by themselves, instead of being spoon fed with answers. They are more self motivated to score well in exams if they know the purpose behind their hard work in schoo...