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Editor's Letter
Dear friends,
Our main event for the year, "Celebrate Real Love:
A Youth and Parenting Conference on Love, Sex and Life"
on Saturday September 6 at the Suntec Convention Centre
is really taking shape. We are very lucky to have a dynamic
husband and wife team from Australia, educators Jonathan and
Karen Doyle, and the erudite and fascinating Professor Thomas
Lickona from the US coming to share their wealth of experience
in the difficult area of teen sexuality and relationships.
The conference will consist of a morning session for the youth,
subtitled "A Dialogue on Love, Sex and Life"; and
an afternoon session for parents, with plenty of time for
Q and As during the forum discussion at the end of each session.
Please make a date of this in your diary as it is a rare opportunity
to hear speakers of this calibre together. We hope to have
the flyer ready to be sent to you by next month.
In addition, our enterprising and hardworking youth are planning
a Malacca
Service Project for girls from July 23 to August 10.
There will be a small contingent of Dutch girls joining them
to add an international flavour to it! If there are any young
ladies out there who would be interested in participating
in it, drop us a line at info@familyes.org.sg.
As always, our team of writers hopes that you find the articles
in Family Tone interesting and of use. We would love to have
feedback from you as to how to improve Family Tone further
or if there are issues you would like us to address!
Audrey
Tan
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2nd
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Feature
Article I
 Double,
double, toil and … chortles!
- Reflections of a Homemaker
by
Anthonia Neo
Homemaking
is definitely a 24/7 job, with no pay, no annual leave - not
to talk about appreciation and compensation but…I wouldn't
change it for the world! Read
more »
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Feature
Article II
 "Raising
Gifted Kids: Everything You Need to Know to help Your Exceptional
Child Thrive"
A
book review by Genevieve Loke
Another one of those books!!? As if the hot-house environment
of Singapore needed more? But Genevieve Loke found this book
a little different… Read
more »
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Special
Feature
 Educating
your child in love, sex and life:
a difficult but crucial role of parents
Part
2: What Parents Can Do
By Audrey Tan
In
Part 1, we looked at why it was so difficult for many parents
to broach this area of their children's sexuality and acquainting
them with the knowledge and skills to make the right decisions
about future relationships. So, what can parents do and where
do they start? Read
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 Youth
The
joy of Christmas-giving…with a difference!
Community Service Project 2007
by
Anabel Choa
Christmas
is a time when we give our loved ones gifts, and the festive
mood sends everyone into a state of satiated somnolence and
contented relaxation, but for seven of us from different backgrounds,
the three days after Christmas last year began with a difference.
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 Parenting
FORTITUDE
by
Marjorie Lim
"The
typical hedonist today does not aspire to anything larger and
higher, but settles for 'feeling good'. Such a life does not
require fortitude…" Read
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 Fashion
& Beauty
"M"
for Modesty…not mini-skirts
by
Karen Neo
Have
you heard of that mobile phone ring tone that is supposed to
be set at a pitch which parents can't hear? I sometimes wonder
if there is a mantra going on amongst our young ladies today
which parents are not meant to hear - something like "The
Barer the Better, the Shorter the Hotter". In this day
and age where wearing less seems to be more, the word 'modesty'
is a very much maligned word. Read
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 Humour
WHEN
INSULTS HAD CLASS…
by
assorted wits
These
glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words
was still valued, before a great portion of the English language
got boiled down to 4 letter words and waving the middle finger!
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