The Secrets of Learning Chinese Online in Frugal Way

According to our family, there are three important languages that should be learned by our son: Indonesia, English, and Chinese. As parent, we can teach English and Indonesian properly. But not Chinese. So, how we manage this need?

We are living in a remote area, although some villagers can speak Chinese, but there’s nothing such a Chinese course, and if I ask them to teach, I’m not sure they can teach my son properly, because they don’t understand about the step-by-step in teaching Chinese language, they only can speak.

Traveling Through Disasters

Me (taking picture), my husband and my son (the boy with green bag)
just arrived at Sultan Thaha airport, Jambi, Sumatera, gratefully!
You can see the thick grey smog in front of us

Last week, we decided to traveling to Java island at 18 August 2015. When we bought tickets and booked the hotels there were no bad news about disasters, but when we arrived at the airport, our flight should be delayed because of the thick smog surrounding the Jambi province, Sumatera island. So, how thick was the smog that made our flight delayed?

Combining Music Appreciation And History Learning

When I first read this book, I found some interesting part: this book is about history! I like history, and like to teach history to my son. History is a humanity, it is a fact of human’s thoughts. Learning history means learning human development from time to time.

Traveling With Kids

“Traveling is so much fun!” a lot of people saying that, but is it true? Traveling can be disaster if we do not ready for it. Whether you traveling alone or with kids. To be honest, if you ever succeed traveling with kids, that mean you are a great traveler!

Kids are the most complex person! They have their own needs, but can’t express them properly. Parent must aware of these needs without being told by the kids. One thing that parent must know when traveling with kids: if your kids’ tummy is full and they are healthy, everything will be ok. So, what should be prepared?

 

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Managing Diabetes At Remote Area

When we were considering moving to remote area, I was worried with my diabetes care. Does the clinic supply insulin? What if I need hospitalization due to diabetes, is there hospital near the house? What if the food they supplied not support my diabetes cure? All of these questions make me worried, but I decided to go to this remote area.

All of my worries seems not happened.

 

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What You Should Know About Making Lab In The House?

Water, straw, plastik bag can be materials at your lab in the house

Not all homeschool family have access to standardized science laboratory. Many of them bought their own laboratory equipment, but there are also families that decide to not doing science experiment that makes them spent a lot of money to buy laboratory equipment. Some frugal family conduct science experiment that doesn’t need expensive tools. The last condition is the best choice for a not so rich homeschooling family.

So, how to manage a lab in the house?

Rainy Day Favorite Activities

It was a rainy day, even when I write this, the rain still falling. Rain began to fall at 3 a.m, and suddenly became hard. I open the curtain to see what happened outside. Oh my God! Flood! Everywhere covered by water. Our stuffs outside were floating, even the trash can that was full.

 

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