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Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

14 July 2022 – 3:34 pm |

“Thanks” to today’s gadgets, more and more kids tend to say, “I don’t know what I’m good at. I don’t know what I like. I’m not interested in anything actually.” (But somehow they are interested …

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Representing Our Choice of Religion

27 February 2017 | Posted in: Daily, Inspirational | No Comment
Representing Our Choice of Religion

In recent months, in Indonesia’s context, one’s choice of religion seems to receive more attention than usual.
‘Gee! Your doctor wasn’t nice, was he? Was he a Christian?’
‘My doctor spoke to us with zero empathy! I …

All Children are Small People who will Change Some Day

10 February 2017 | Posted in: Inspirational, Parenting | No Comment

 
A child has small hands, small feet and small ears, but that does not mean they have small ideas.

Children have little things, just like them:
a little bed, bright little books, a little umbrella, a little …

Parenting: NOT All Movies are Suitable for Children

1 February 2017 | Posted in: Inspirational, Parenting | No Comment
Parenting: NOT All Movies are Suitable for Children

Not all movies are suitable for children.
Ratings are there for a purpose.
What goes into young children’s mind and heart through their eyes and ears is hard to ‘delete’.

 Till today, my heart aches when I see …

Loving Our Spouse, Till Death Do Us Part

27 January 2017 | Posted in: Inspirational, Marriage & Relationships, Video | No Comment
Loving Our Spouse, Till Death Do Us Part

My grandma would’ve had her 76th wedding anniversary this year. But my grandpa had to leave before they celebrated their 73rd anniversary. Since that day and till today, I see my grandma ‘telling’ her husband …

Have We Been Teaching LIES to Our Children?

11 January 2017 | Posted in: Inspirational, Parenting | No Comment

 
No sane parents would want to purposely teach LIES / false reality to their children.
But, the problem is, … many parents unknowingly have been doing just that to their children, through the way they raise …

8 Points I Shared with Senior High School Students on their Career Day

8 December 2016 | Posted in: Daily, Inspirational, Parenting | No Comment

 
Earlier today I spoke to a group of students at ACS Jakarta.
A humbling experience, to have had the opportunity to share, together with the others speakers.

Out of the things I shared with the students, if …

Cancelled Christmas Service in Bandung: Mourning for Loss of Religious Freedom

6 December 2016 | Posted in: Inspirational | No Comment

[Photo from Reformed Injili Events Facebook]

 
Tonight, an annual Christmas service in Bandung was reduced to a 10-minute candle-light service led by Rev. Stephen Tong.
Reason?
Because, an ‘organisation’ said NO Christian meetings could be held in a …

Car Talk: Trust is Like a Glass Ball

2 November 2016 | Posted in: Daily, Inspirational | No Comment

Being trustworthy is something that we highly value and naturally instill in our kids since they’re young.
And it starts from simple things, like:
When you say you’ll do the dishes ‘later’, do you really do it, …

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