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• Kid Friendly Dining Places – Picotin

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on February 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Is bringing the kids out for a meal something you absolutely dread and a situation that can potentially turn nightmarish? Are restaurants too cramped and packed full of fragile glassware everywhere that taking your eyes off your little ones for… Read More ›

• Neil Humphreys: When my little girl left home forever (all right, one night)

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on May 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  MY wife and I planned our night alone together. A meal, a movie, smiling eyes over supper and an evening of intellectually stimulating conversation, it was going to be glorious. Our daughter was embarking on her first sleepover away from… Read More ›

• Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 3: From Chinatown to Little India

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on May 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Travel this exotic journey with your kids that starts at the Chinatown MRT and ends at the Little India MRT stations. While you can complete the journey by train in minutes, there’s much to explore by bus and on foot…. Read More ›

• Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 2: From Clifford Pier to Kampong Glam

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on April 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This bus ride will bring you on “journeys within a journey” as it travels through two significant places where masses of people entered and left Singapore in the early 1900s. Head down to Raffles Place MRT station and cross over… Read More ›

• Videos for Dads and Kids 4: Astounding Athletic Quadcopters

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on April 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Watch this 16-minute video of flying quadrocopters (quads) with your family! Tweens and teenagers will be particularly captivated by these robots that think like athletes and solve physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. A video like this might… Read More ›

• Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 1: Down Memory Lane

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on April 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Is there a bus journey that you enjoyed taking as a child with a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle? What was it for? Was it to visit a relative, buy something special or run an errand? All these may have… Read More ›

• Videos for Dads and Kids 3: Discover Electrifying Dance

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on April 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “Dance can have an transformative effect on the world.” –Jon M Chu, Filmmaker Don’t shy away from this 2010 talk by Filmmaker Jon M. Chu just because you’re not into dance. It’s electrifying and entertaining! And, it will make you… Read More ›

• Home But Not Alone 5

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on April 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In Home Alone 1 to 4, we wrote how Dads can still participate in their children’s care when they need to be away. While you can plan for Caregivers to work on different activities with your child, you can also look… Read More ›

• Videos for Dads and Kids 2: Inspiring Innovation for Teens

  By dadsforlifetoolbox on April 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  What pushed teenager Jack Andraka to come up with an inexpensive way to test for pancreatic cancer at an early stage? Jack shares that it was the pain of losing a beloved family friend to the illness. Wanting to make… Read More ›