These are the “principles” that I put together, targeting the kids as its main audience during their school closure period in facing the Covid-19 virus challenges.

There is a Chinese phrase “任性” and I found it’s hard to have a matching English translation. Google Translate gives me words like “capricious” or “willfulness”, which are really not what “任性” refers to in terms of its implication of… Read More »“任性” (ren’xing)

I have a few hours to kill in this Thanksgiving Eve, while waiting in a local YMCA for my daughter’s swimming practice. It seems to be a perfect time and a perfect pause from busy daily routines to list out… Read More »Is there anything to thank for?

My son, Eric, plays soccer since he was little. He used to have scored the most in his first year travel team. He later moved on to a more competitive team and his position has been moved backwards and he… Read More »Space of safety

My relationship with my daughter has not been going too well as what I hoped for lately. She is 14 years old. By no means I suggested that her age was the problem. My daughter and I used to be… Read More »Boys will be bugs

When in an disagreement, do you provide a perspective or an opinion? Perspective a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. Opinion a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or… Read More »Perspective vs. Opinion

This was just one of those swim meets, hundreds of parents sitting upstairs, watching down their kids to compete. A 9 years old girl got up on the starting block.  In anticipation of the whistle, she fell into the pool. … Read More »Power

This is early February in New Jersey.  After a few historical cold days at around zero °F degrees, it shot right to the sixties. Walking my daughter out of her piano lesson, she commented on the weather: “This is crazy. … Read More »It all started with a small talk about weather…