Photo: A diya (traditional clay pot filled with oil) Elisa colored in preparation for her trip to Little India to participate in Deepavali activities. The first time I went to Little India last week, I accompanied my daughter’s class so that the children could experience Deepavali firsthand. In anticipation of the field trip, the […]
Travel with Children
Best (adult) museum – for children. Ever.
Yesterday, my six-year-old daughter asked beseechingly, not for the first time, “When can we go back to the Singapore Museum? I can’t wait to listen to all the recordings again.” Elisa has astonished me over the last few weeks with her unflagging interest in The National Museum of Singapore. My surprise lay not in […]
Mooncakes, folk tales and lanterns
“If you see a black dot on the moon, you’re looking at Cheng’ e,” my daughter told Erik and me this weekend when we were discussing the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, which culminated last night with the full moon. When we asked her to translate, she rolled her eyes and said with more emphasis, as if […]