The Wandering Saint of Singapore. Dr Tan Lai Yong Wonderfully inspiring article and of special interest are these lines: “I hang out at swimming pools. Singaporean kids who swim are training for competition. They don’t play. Only the foreign kids come and play,” he observes. On weekends, he sees the fevered brows of kids in glass-walled tuition centres, while their fathers read newspapers outside. And he yearns to tell them: “Your No.1 job as a father is to help your children build friendships. Your No.1 job is not to send them to tuition centres.” To encourage more to play with their kids, he started several father-and-son football games islandwide. One programme, that began in 2011 at University Town on Saturday nights, is ongoing. Typically, 30 teens come looking for a game, accompanied by five fathers, which, he feels, is a start. Again, Kids need to be Kids... Is there too much pressure kids, parents and teachers these days?? lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/news/dr-tan-lai-yong-wandering-saint-of-singapore/
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 06:23:17 +0000
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