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Instead of overthinking and agonising over your choices, try to take a long-term view, the writer says.
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SINGAPORE - When my eldest child, now 15, could not read independently when he was six, I was anxious and started researching all the things I should be doing to help him.
When his pre-school classmate's mum told me how much her daughter enjoyed doing pages from a Chinese assessment book every night, I got him one as well, hoping he would also "enjoy" doing work.
