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Welcoming strains and stresses in Primary 1

As parents we can sometimes be too eager to sweep aside any obstacles in our child’s path. It may be better to take a step back

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As parents we can sometimes be too eager to sweep aside any obstacles in our child’s path. It may be better to take a step back, says the writer.

As parents we can sometimes be too eager to sweep aside any obstacles in our child’s path. It may be better to take a step back, says the writer.

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SINGAPORE - The night before my child started Primary 1, I was up late preparing the things he would need for his first day of school.

Having procrastinated on reading a to-do list sent out a week before, it only fully dawned on me then that everything he would be taking to school would have to be labelled.

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