KUALA LUMPUR, 24 January 2022 – Ahead of the Chinese New Year, The LEGO® Group has revealed two new Chinese Traditional Festival LEGO® sets to inspire families to discover the cultural heritage and stories behind the festive celebrations.  Encouraging creative play across all ages 80108 LEGO® Lunar New Year Traditions celebrates six different activities of the festive occasion with six brick-built scenes packed with authentic details. These include Spring Festival Shopping, making auspicious decorations, visiting family and exchanging red packets. Each module corresponds to a set of Chine ..read more

Every mom knows that it can be hard to find a minute for herself. Most of our days are spent taking care of our kids, house chores, and work. And even if we do get an hour or two to read or watch TV, it’s still most probably an animated film or video that our kid is currently obsessed with or a book that another child needs for school. This is the reason why a lot of moms are turning to podcasts. Listening to podcasts is a perfect way to tune out, relax, and even think about something else aside from your work tasks or even mommy duties. Plus, with the help of your smartphone and trusty earpho ..read more

By: Kezhia Maglasang Losing a child is every parent’s worst nightmare, especially if it happens so unexpectedly. For Angelica De Leon-Panganiban, this terrible nightmare happened on January 14, 2021.  It was a normal day for Angelica. She was up at 6 in the morning to make breakfast and a few minutes later, her son Alonzo woke up. They went on about their morning — Alonzo was watching Blippi, he had his taho, he was playing in their room, and at around 11 AM, he was breastfed until he fell asleep.  Then, the afternoon came. After doing chores, Angelica was about to lie down when she ..read more

Good students aren’t born; they’re made. If you’re a parent or teacher to preschool children, don’t expect them to be stellar students right off the bat. If you’ve set your expectations high—you’ll probably be disappointed to know that it doesn’t work that way.  Yes, a child’s individuality and personality play a huge role in his/her willingness to learn when it comes to schooling and education. But the good news is that your child can become a good learner if he or she possesses the right aptitude and motivation. However, it’s worth mentioning that if you want to develop and nurture a ch ..read more

In conjunction with Safer Internet Month, Google Malaysia hosted Safer with Google, a roundtable themed around online safety, to equip parents with practical tips and tools to keep their young ones safe online. On the panel was Google’s Online Safety Education Lead, Lucian Teo and CyberSecurity Malaysia’s Senior Vice President of the Outreach and Capacity Building Division, Lt Col (Rtd) Musta a bin Ahmad. The session was moderated by Nadia Khan, Communications Manager of Consumer Products at Google Malaysia. A recent survey conducted by Google’s Trust Research team all over Asia-Pacific revea ..read more

The Lunar New Year is here and it’s our first time to celebrate with safety precautions in place. We may have to change and replace certain traditions, but it’s the spirit of a new beginning that matters. Here are the different ways of celebrating the Year of the Ox you can take part in this season. Decorate for happiness and prosperity Decorations welcome the good luck, happiness, and prosperity into your family and home. Putting up a Fu banner, red lanterns, or knots has always been the tradition, but decorating with plants, flowers, zodiac items, and red cloth can bring in the good too. Sav ..read more

The Pokémon Company has launched Pokémon Kids TV, an English sister channel of the official Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel for children. Pokémon Kids TV makes available videos ranging from Pokémon songs and nursery rhymes to educational content catered primarily to children aged from three to seven. “With the growing demand for video content worldwide, we aim to reach out to international markets, allowing more children from around the world to enjoy the content we deliver through Pokémon Kids TV in English. We are also planning to expand this concept in the future to other Asian countries a ..read more

By: MaryRose Cobarde Candare Within a span of 10 short days, I met in close encounters two profoundly polar life experiences – that of birth and death. One fills the heart with joy. The other utterly breaks it. My son was born 10 days before my dear mother died. I found meaning on why he arrived 6 weeks early when my mother passed. It was as if the rhythm of life was pulsating towards a compassionate order of things. Both unfoldings speak of the same great love and with it, and therefore the same unquestioning gratitude to the Giver of Life. As the youngest of 10 children, my parents were near ..read more

As parents, we want to give our baby the best: the best care possible, the best toys, the best food. But it can be pretty overwhelming when we get the “best” baby care tips from our moms, mothers-in-law, friends, and even neighbors. So most of the time, we have to ask ourselves, which do we believe in? And what do we do? If you’re confused over all the advice you’re getting, we’re debunking the common ones for you. Advice: Oil massages are good for baby. Fact: Giving babies oil massages is an age-old practice that’s found in different cultures, and it’s one practice that parents can consider ..read more

CBeebies’ brand-new grandmother and granddaughter duo arrives on Asian screens for the first time ever in the first season of JoJo and Gran Gran. Follow their everyday adventures as 5-year-old JoJo learns how to get on a bus and bake a cake while her parents are away at work, and discovers more about her own culture through Gran Gran’s timeless tales along the way. The show imparts values of family community, multiculturalism and roots, while paying homage to the active roles grandparents play in raising children too. To commemorate the Hindu festival of lights this November, the Diw ..read more