Ask Our Experts: Potty Training
When would be the right time/age to start potty training my toddler? Toilet training or potty training is teaching your child to recognize his or her body signals for urinating and defecating by using a potty-chair or toilet correctly at…
Ask Our Experts: Eating Solids
At what age should I start feeding my baby solid food? Quoted from World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations: “Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Breastfeeding, along with…
Ask Our Experts: Nurture
“When is the best time to nurture and stimulate my child?” If I were to give you a seed to plant, and ask of you to provide it with as much sunshine, water and fertiliser, when would you start caring…
Ask Our Experts: Early Education
“I have heard a lot about starting early when it comes to education, but won’t cramping my 8 month old baby’s head with school stuff at such an early age rob her of her childhood?” I believe there are three…
Ask Our Experts: Vaccinations
“Are there any serious ramifications for missing any scheduled immunizations or being late for them? My husband, who is from New Zealand, has this opinion that Malaysian babies get too many injections and not all of them are necessary! Hence,…
Ask Our Experts: Getting Pregnant and Racism
“If I have been eating well and exercising and still cannot get pregnant after six months of unprotected sex, would it be safe to assume that it’s my hubby who is probably having issues with his re-productivity? I am 32…
Ask Our Experts: Toddlers
I worry about my two-year-old son’s lack of interest in toys and over-interest in TV programs. It has come to the point where it doesn’t even matter what program is on TV, even boring documentaries seem more interesting to him…
Ask Our Experts: Playschool
How will I know if my little one is ready to attend an enrichment centre or playschool? I am worried that at her tender age of 32 months, she might not be able to keep up with the activity levels…
Ask Our Experts: Maids and Food
My husband and I both work and my 34 month old daughter is looked after by our live-in maid. Lately, my daughter seems to have developed an un-explainable attachment to my maid, who is about the same age as me.…
Ask Our Experts: Grandmothers and Early Education
I am a mother of two young children ages three and a half years old and 7 months old. My older son takes after me, a Malaysian Chinese where else my youngest, also a boy, resembles his father who is…











