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What is Montessori?

Montessori is a scientific pedagogy applied to child education developed in the 1900s by Maria Montessori, the first Italian woman to become a physician. Dr. Montessori became interested in education while caring for mentally challenged children in a psychiatric clinic in Rome. She made scientific observations about children's learning process

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Free Printable Ramadan 1441H/2020

Ramadan will begin in a short while. Have you prepared yourself to make the most out of it? What do you want to accomplish through this Ramadan? Have you planned? Everyone may have different goals. No goal is too big or too small. Every goal is important. But achieving the

The Importance of Digital Awareness in Parenting

Living in a digital era comes with its own benefits and disanvantages. As a parent, we need to equip ourselves with extensive knowledge of the digital world. Thus, we can optimise the benefits of it and minimize the disadvantages while guarding our children from the harmful side. During this week

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Organize Your Note with OneNote

OneNote is a a digital note taking app. I have to say, this app is the best note taking app I experienced so far. It makes note taking and organising a lot easier. Let's go through what I love from this app one by one. First, this app can be

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Endomondo

Endomondo is an app to track our sport activities. I like this app because of its simplicity and flexibility. It is user friendly and can be used in both ios and android. Endomondo can also be integrated to a smart watch, that makes it more pratical. Whenever I exercise, I

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Finding Hidden Gems with Carousell

One of my favourite app is Carousell. It's a community market place where you can buy and sell anything; books, gadgets, clothes, automotive, From new stuff to preloved stuff, furnitures, and many more. For me, Carousell helps me to declutter my home and get extra few bucks out of it.

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Keepass: Keeping Your Password All at Once

Living in a digital era comes with its perks and as well as disadvantages. There are enormous amount of apps out there that offer practicality to our lives. But it also means a lot of usernames and passwords that we have to remember. Luckily my husband introduce me to KeepassX,

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Slack: Key to an Effective Group Communication

Have you ever had a problem communicating in an online messenger group? What's your common problems? For me, information is hard to find and hard to recall. I have too many unread messages, conversation topics are cluttered, polling creates a huge mess, event is hard to find unless we make

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Muslim Pro: All You Need on the Go

Muslim Pro is one of the apps that I frequently access from the phone. This app has everything I need and is very handy, especially when I travel. It helps me to find the direction of prayer, prayer times, and also easy access to Qur'an. Main Features This is the

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Google Calendar: A Family Sync

One of the most useful app to our family is Google Calendar. This app allows my husband and I to be aware of each other schedule and also our little Lulu's schedule. So, what type of schedule that I put on the calendar? Generally, I put all of my daily

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Transferwise: No-Hassle Remittance

Sending money home has been my problem for years. Well, there are remittance services out there, but the rates are not so good. I used to contact several remittance provider to get a better rate. Yeah, as you can imagine, it took forever! Oh, and I used to do this

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Google Flights: The Best Way to Compare Flight Ticket

Our family values travel as an investment. It provides a lot of lessons, broadening our point of view, strengthen family bonding, and of course creating invaluable memories. We travel a lot. As the ministry of finance of the family, I am responsible for travel arrangements, especially accommodation and flight tickets.

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Go-Jek: The Super App Review

I have been living outside Indonesia for almost seven years. The only thing that makes me envious of my friend living in Indonesia is the Go-Jek app. Go-Jek is an Indonesian company established in 2010 as a motorcycle ride-hailing call center in Indonesia. The app then launched in 2015 with

Sexuality

Nurturing Sexual Nature on Children: a Reflection

Nurturing sexual nature on children is important. Early sex education allows children to be aware of their sexual nature and grow according their sexual nature. The discussion on this theme covers 10 topics as follows. The JournalDay 1: Understanding gender differences Day 2: Early education on sexual nature Day 3:

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How to Answer Kid's Questions about Sex

Children are full of curiosity. That curiosity is a spark of learning, which we should maintain. Parents, however, sometimes kill the curiosity by trying to shut them up, especially when asking 'difficult' questions, like for example questions about sex. Then, how should we respond? First, disclose only what they really

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The Role of Environment in Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

Preventing child sexual abuse is the responsibility of each and one of us. As an adult, we need to be aware of the scope sexual abuse and the signs of a child that may experienced sexual abuse. So that we can quickly respond to it even before any child is

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Sexual Deviation and Its Solution

Sexual deviation refers to experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviours, or individuals. A great exposure of digital media with an overwhelming information out there has somehow assisting the spread of sexual deviation. Of course it is alarming. What can we do to protect our children

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Guarding Our Child Against Sexual Abuse

Reading sexual abuse cases on the media makes me cringe. Especially when I have a little baby. It makes me anxious raising my child in this era. How can I guard my child against sexual abuse? First and foremost, and you may all agree, that family is the key. Sex

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The Effects of Digital Media on Child's Sexual Nature

Digital media has become things that is inseparable from our daily life, as they make life easier. However, digital media is like a double edge sword. Besides its benefits, digital media also poses negative risks. Let's take a look. Positive Effects of Digital MediaDigital media allows easier communication through chatting

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Balanced Maturity Education

Balanced maturity refers to a harmony between two aspects of maturity; psychological maturity and physical maturity. A person who is mature psychologically is able to differentiate between good and bad, develop a good common sense of problem solving, thinking before acting. Meanwhile, physical maturity can be seen from maturity of

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The Role of Father in Nurturing Sexual Nature

It takes a balanced role of a mother and a father to nurturing sexual nature of a child. Especially father, it is stated in the Qur'an surah Annisa verse 34 that "a man is the maintainers of a women because Allah has made some of them to excel others..". From

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The Role of Parents in Nurturing Sexual Nature

Nurturing sexual nature refers to the act of growing and nourishing child's sexuality based on his/her gender; how a man thinks, behaves and acts feels like a man, also how a woman thinks, behaves and acts feels like a woman. Why does sexual nature need to be nurtured? A

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Early Education on Sexual Nature

Sexuality can be describe as the difference between male and female that is not only seen from sex aspect, but also from norm and behaviour. While sexual nature refers to the ability of one to think, feel and behave according to his/her nature, whether it is as a real

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Introducing Sexual Nature to Children: Understanding Gender Differences

Sexual nature needs to be introduced and emphasised to children as early as possible. Before introducing sexual nature to children, we need to understand what it means. What is sex? Sex is biological differences between males and females, such as the genitalia and genetic differences. Male is identified as human

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Fostering Creativity in Children: A Reflection

I believe that children are naturally creative. They are born with powerful imagination and dare to try. Thus, I personally think we only need to facilitate and observe them, so we can guide them in finding their passion. Reflecting myself into the topic, I feel that I am not (really)