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After a typical fall storm in central New Jersey, my lawn was covered with fallen leaves and tree branches. It’s just such a headache because I have to pick up all the fallen branches by hand before I could get… Read More »Ownership

It was about two months ago, my son’s second last game for the 2020 season of his soccer travel team. I don’t even remember the score of the game, but only our trip back home from the game. The trip… Read More »“Play Hard”

Got another opportunity to “chat” with my son yesterday, which I would never get it wasted. 😀 It was towards the end of the day, after he spent a lot of time during the day on absolutely nothing except all… Read More »My son asked me this million-dollar question, “what’s the meaning of life?”, and he is 11.

This is what I wrote in a previous blog, “So the criterion of making a choice is really all about right or wrong, rather than how you feel (like or dislike),” a message I’ve repeatedly given to my son and… Read More »Right or wrong – all about character

True story… The husband enjoys Costco Butter Pound Cakes. In a morning he opened up a new one and, like what he always did, cut each cake into three even-sized pieces so that for the next nine days he could… Read More »Strategic Thinking, Or Not

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