Parent's Page

Information, articles and useful links for Singapore parents

Go-Go Bambini believes that a good relationship between parent and child is paramount to the development of your child. Maintaining work-life balance and open lines of communication are increasingly challenging in today’s world and that’s why we advocate spending quality time with your family. Do something together at least once a week and learn to have fun with your kids. Play is good for everyone.

The articles, information and links below are all aimed at helping you and your child.


How to Discipline Kids without Criticism

Would you like 3 parenting tips on how to discipline without criticism? You can stop being your child's critical judge and start building character now.

I've done my share of criticizing. It didn't help me or build character in my children. I knew I had to stop and I did. Today I'll share how you can stop criticizing too, but first let's look at why criticism is such a poor way to discipline.

Discipline Tips for Parents – What's Wrong with Criticism?


Top Ten Nutritional Tips for Children


Helping Children Play Well Together

When you and your child join or set up a play group, or get together with other families, it helps to have the parents agree on policies for handling the inevitable issues:


Setting Limits with Young Children

When children are under stress they lose their patience, their love of fun, their easygoing ability to make each day a good one. At these times, they tend to do things that don't make sense. They'll begin to squabble, to insist on having things someone else has, or to want one thing after another, without gaining satisfaction.


Getting Through School Struggles

Children love to learn. Learning is as natural as breathing to them—they absorb every single thing that happens. They learn through play, they learn from the behavior of the children and adults around them, they learn from their own experiments. By all rights, going to school, with its new experiences, many children, and opportunities to master powerful skills like reading and math, should be exciting and fun for them.

In order to learn well, our children need to feel safe and wanted


How to let go of hyperparenting & relax with your kids

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” - C.G. Jung


Teach your kids financial literacy

During the current hard times we are all experiencing it seems timely that we should consider teaching our kids financial literacy as early as possible.
Our attitudes towards money are, to a great extent, shaped by our parents. And yet, according to a study, less than 50 % parents admit to teaching their kids about finance.

These days kids are very fashion conscious and brand sensitive at a young age. They have high expectations, especially when their friends have such coveted items as ipods, handphones, PSP’s and luxury holidays abroad. And who can blame them?

How Dads Can Stay Involved

Ideas for Connecting with your Kids

Preschoolers & Kindergartners      
  • Go on a walk with your child, and collect leaves or other objects that reflect the changing seasons.

The Lighter Side

Mums definitely have their humorous moments and these funny quotes are testimony to the laughs that mothers often enjoy (and sometimes endure). This Mother's Day, share these funny quotes with your mum and enjoy a moment of shared love and laughter.
 
"Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young." - Author Unknown
 

Taking a pro-active approach to childhood obesity

It is now estimated that one in every 10 children is clinically obese.

The problem of childhood obesity has steadily risen over the past two decades and is now of increasing concern to health professionals and governments worldwide.

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