CrossCom™ Back-to-School Set worth $485

About CrossCom™

CrossCom™ - Your Posture Engineer invoked the importance of adopting an ergonomic lifestyle with Moll™ fully-adjustable workstation and McNeill^® posture backpacks when ergonomics was new to Singapore and Asia in the early 1990s. Since then, CrossCom™ has established a reputation as the trusted ergonomic lifestyle retailer who carries the largest range of ergonomic lifestyle products that are designed with orthopaedists and ergonomic experts.

My Gym Package worth $480

My Gym has developed an extraordinary program and facilities devised to help children 6 months thru 10 years of age develop physically, cognitively and emotionally. We have over 200 locations in more than 25 countries offering structured, age-appropriate, weekly classes that incorporate music, dance, relays, games, special rides, gymnastics, sports and more.

Our facilities, programs and services empower youngsters by helping them acquire the skills, confidence and positive self-image needed to become healthy young adults.

My Gym is committed to nurturing children, treating them with understanding and positive reinforcement, maintaining a supportive and non-competitive atmosphere, and making learning fun and exciting.

Interaction with our highly trained staff provides children the opportunity to establish warm relationships with compassionate adults, thus raising their level of comfort as they begin preschool/kindergarten.

Cycling champion Maxz Ho makes a good start in his day
with a nutritious breakfast of Koko Krunch and iced Milo
BY DOUGLAS CHEW

Twelve-year-old Maxz Ho was exhilarated when he won his first individual championship race last year, in the Singapore Cyclone Race Criterium Kids C road racing series.

Maxz enjoys the teamwork in sports and has his own cycling team named Team Turtle, comprising his older brother and friends. His parents support his passion for cycling and participate in this activity by ensuring that the boys are safe and have sufficient water throughout their training. They even keep spare parts of the bicycles in case of breakdowns.

Maxz is also in his school's swim team and is a First Poom Junior Black Belt in taekwondo. His mother, Mrs Annie Ho, says: "Regardless of what sports he's training for, we support him wholeheartedly."

Before a child gets exposure to food outside the home, his/her tastebuds are trained at home. When my kids were little, I forbade junk food. But I also made sure that as they got older, AFTER I had educated their palate, they got a taste of such things. We DO go out to McDonald's as a family, but the kids know that it isn't good food... and they can taste it.

Every one of the 4 races in Singapore has complex and long food traditions which use spices and cooking techniques that create music for the mouth. Once the palate has learnt to appreciate the richness and complexity of a taste orchestra playing in harmony, it will find the simple tastes of "very sweet" and "very salty" and "very oily" of junk food, crude and unrefined. It won't like too much of it.

I had intended to have a water birth for my second child.  I diligently attended private ante-natal classes with DH to prepare for the birth.  I had even engaged in a Doula for support (see link for definition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doula).

But it was not meant to be…..

10 days before delivery

“Alamak babe, got cramps lah, hope its not surges …” This was uttered while in the midst of reading the Sunday papers and sipping my decaffeinated iced mocha at Starbucks outside Pacific Plaza.

Healthy habits should be seeded in a child during the childhood days. Healthy diet, healthy habits, and healthy routines should be taught to our children. A healthy thought infused in childhood will help the child when he or she turns into responsible individual.  Listed below are some health tips for children.