​Another day to record for my memories. A day my kids enjoyed their time at Kidzania. Ever since the pandemic it has been awhile since they’ve been to Kidzania and so much has changed.

As a parent I was so proud of them, as many will probably just give up without trying but they know that if you want something, you have to do your best and keep going even when it is uncomfortable. My eldest is afraid of heights but he made it halfway to the top, my second boy was also afraid but he did his best to find a way despite the obstacles infront of him, he didn’t give ip and kept trying even though he didn't make it halfway but I was able to witness him trying his best. 

There were many other new activities on board like the FoodPanda grocery shopping and delivery, the Royal Canin Veterinary, the Famous Amos outlet and they brought cookies back, also the TV news reporter that I was equally proud of them because they were able to read the teleprompter on live TV. Although it was funny but they never complained or gave up.

At the end, they wanted to spend on toys but Kidzania is hood because it teaches them the value of it. Despite doing several jobs and making Kidzos they were still unable to get the toys they want. It indirectly teaches them the value of hard earned income from their effort and it is not an overnight success. 

They had lots of fun and learned the value of hardwork effort and making money. But they had fun at the same time, I get to teach them the value of life to prepare them for the real world.

 I'm so excited to share with you about this! Seeing as we're all pretty much in at home for awhile now and for god knows how long more. With all the hustle and bustle out there, we definitely wanna keep our babies safe at home! But all those young-one energy that is just ready to burst and explode, because they can't go to school or they can't go to the mall or even to the park anymore! To be honest, I feel sad for my children because they don't know what fun they are gonna miss out on! That's why I have to up my game and bring fun indoors, prevention better than cure!

With so many business owners and entrepreneurs revamping their game-plan out there. One mommy, Ms Sarah who is a dedicated art tutor that works with little creative minds everyday, has also transitioned things online. And I gotta say, since MCO (Movement Control Order) happened in 2020 across Malaysia, I didn't think further and got some homemade playdough kits for my boys to be creative at home.

I am one mom who dislike messy playtimes, that's why I was on the fence on playdoughs and the thought of my child putting it into their mouth is horrifying. Nevertheless, I took my chances with ArtVenture with Sarah's Playdough kits because I know Sarah and her passion for art and with kids is beyond boundary! Therefore I trust my kids with her kits! (Cool! It rhymes hehe)

Just look at my kids having a go at the Space Play Dough! Who said space should be all alien looking and scary when it can be this cute!

And when it was time to explore the other side of the world, the Ocean Life Activity Kit, which took awhile for me to open this up because of my kids ever-changing interest. But even I had some fun with the playdough myself!

I love these because they are made with food grade ingredients, non-chemical nor toxic. Hence it is safe in general and naturally, I don't have to worry so much and age myself over such matters. So if you are looking for some kinda help to keep your sanity whilst keep your child entertained. Please for your own good health, get this for your children!

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 It's back! The big bad wolf is back and this time it's back with its "Hybrid Book Sale". Dubbed as "The World's Biggest Book Sale", the BIG BAD WOLF is back and kicking off their "Malaysia Tour" after a long hiatus due to the pandemic! What's even better is now this book sale is going to be on-ground and online as well, to cater to everyone! Literally everyone! Especially to those who prefers to shop safely from their own home and avoid crowded areas -kudos to u~!

The Book Sale will be held at the Tropicana Gardens Mall, Level 3A Convention Centre, Kota Damansara, and simultaneously goes live online via its e-commerce website from the 29th of April to the 10th of May, 2021. Speaking at the press conference held at the Convention Centre recently, Andrew Yap, Co-Founder and Managing Director of BIG BAD WOLF Books, said, “We are extremely excited and thrilled to be back on home ground after having hosted our first Hybrid Sale in Johor Bahru recently. Due to the popular response received from our first Hybrid Sale, we decided that we should meet our fans once again hence the launch of the ‘Malaysia Tour’ Hybrid Book Sale.”

“We’re also delighted to be partnering with Tropicana Gardens Mall and being their first BIG BAD WOLF Book Sale at Tropicana Gardens Convention Centre to hold our on-ground Book Sale in Selangor that will be open daily from 10 am to 10 pm. Simultaneously, our Online Book Sale’ e-commerce website will be going live 24 hours daily to cater to our customers nationwide.”

“There are amazing deals such the ‘1 SEN Deal’ on offer for the Hybrid Book Sale as well as free shipping within Peninsular Malaysia with a net purchase of RM180 and 50% off shipping with a minimum spend of RM80,” added Yap.

Andrew Ashvin, Managing Director of Tropicana Gardens Mall, added, “It is our pleasure and privilege to host the return of the BIG BAD WOLF Book Sale at Tropicana Gardens Mall. As always, we are committed to ensuring the best shopping experience for our shoppers by observing SOPs in our aim to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wish to thank Andrew Yap, Jacqueline Ng, and their team who have worked tirelessly to organize this event with much priority on the wellbeing of our shoppers and employees. We’re looking forward to a safe and successful event.” 

With books available from up to 99% off the recommended retail price, customers will be spoilt for choice as BIG BAD WOLF Books offers more than 60,000 book titles ranging from popular novels to science fiction, romance, literature, graphic art, and business books to architecture, cookbooks, and many more.

Fans of BIG BAD WOLF Books who are unable to visit the Book Sale at Tropicana Gardens Mall or prefer to shop from the comfort of their own homes may join in the Book Sale by adding books into their cart online. The BIG BAD WOLF Online Book Sale e-commerce website will be available live 24 hours a day at https://online.shopbigbadwolfbooks.com/ . Online shoppers surely would not want to miss bountiful discounts and promotions made available throughout the Sale. 

BIG BAD WOLF Books and Tropicana Gardens Mall highly prioritizes the safety and hygiene of those visiting the Book Sale. Preventive safety SOPs measures and precautions enforced by the Government of Malaysia will be adhered to at all times. Customers entering the Sale will be constantly monitored to ensure that they wear a mask and maintain a safe distance from one another while shopping. Hand sanitizer ‘stations’ will be placed throughout the Convention Centre hall. In-house personnel will ensure that all the trolleys be regularly sanitized throughout the day and conduct temperature checks at the entrance.

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So head on over and shop for your favourite titles as I already bought mine and added to my shopping cart! Am actually awaiting it to arrive this coming week! I definitely don't wanna be out there for now with 3 of my kids shopping over books, the risk is too much for me as a parent to risk my kids being exposed to the pandemic nowadays as we just only gotten over our worst nightmare from a covid case at school which I will share in my next post. So stay responsible and stay safe everyone!

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 As a mother of 3, it is important to know of what's currently available for my kids to access to on the digital era that is deemed valuable for their future. And recently, I have been teaching my kids on saving right for their future. I actually prepared the good ol' traditional piggy bank in a shape of a huge blue hippo that they can open the cover easily to access to their money.

And that's the downside of it. I have to place it high up on top the cupboard so that they don't simply play with it or access it to buy unnecessary items when it's meant for them in the future when they really need it. So then I ask, I wonder, is there any app out there that can facilitate such saving features that is kid-friendly where I can educate my child interactively at the same time?

And I found it. Hong Leong Bank launches its HLB Pocket Connect app that allows children to do banking on the digital side, so it teaches them the basics of banking, to earn, save and spend via a device. And their account is linked to a parent to help them make smarter choices.

I love how the app interactive features is really seamless between Parent-Child as it gives us as much control over their finances until they are ready to take accountability of their own finance situation. It's definitely the first and only app now in Malaysia with Hong Leong bank that will be beneficial for many families with kids.

Education on finances should begin young, not when we are about to head out into the big big world to work. It should start from the day we start to count! 

That way, we can empower our kids to make wiser choices and allow them the spending power with every ounce of accountability or responsibility being weight in. That way, kids know that, not everything is an entitlement. 

Just because they want it, doesn't mean they can have it, they have to learn that money don't grow on trees, they have to do something in return for it and when they have it, only then it should be much appreciated and saved up for much more important things than to spend everything unnecessarily. The app has this feature where they have tasks to complete that parents can give them tasks in return for extra pocket money. That way it is trackable and manageable for both party. Kind of like gaming where you accomplish tasks to level up. I'm sure most kids these days on the device plays games, hence it is something they can relate to, just that this will be in real life. So we teach them that money comes with hard work and real effort.

Once they start earning and saving up in their balance. Then it will come to the next stage, and that is to track their spending. So parents can be an eagle-hawk-eye all they want in this approach, but the purpose of this feature actually teaches a child how to spend wisely, how to plan for their future expenses without breaking the bank or burning a hole in their wallet - like literally! And what to spend on wisely and not just some randomly toy they see and buys it without purpose only to have it being thrown away in just a couple of hours. This is something parents must be involve in educating a child of such. With the HLB Pocket Connect App, your child will be able to keep track of their pocket money and spending, while having the freedom to go cashless with their very own HLB Junior Debit Card. Your child is safer with a reloadable debit card than cash.

The title kinda says it all. Like literally, growing UP and I mean in terms of reaching the optimal height a child should be at their age is important! That's why when I heard of the latest Dutch Lady MaxGro formula milk, surely as a mother of cute little petite kids who is not even 5 feet herself, surely I would want to try too! Too bad I exceed the age-group for this growth phase. Anyway jokes aside, as any kiasu asian parents who would want their child to grow up big and strong and tall, definitely we would want it to be all-natural!

That's why I'm gonna share more details about this milk today. Malaysia has a malnutrition problem. According to the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2019 (NHMS 2019) released by the Ministry of Health, Malaysia, the prevalence of stunting and underweight in children under five years of age in Malaysia has increased from 17.7% in 2015 to 21.9% in 2019². A study conducted by the South East Asian Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS) in 2012 also revealed that 1 out of 2 children in Malaysia did not achieve the Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNI, 2017) for Calcium and Vitamin D³, both are important nutrients for bone growth. One of the reason why I myself am on Cal-Mag supplements for my own bones!

Hence, Dutch Lady, Malaysia's leading dairy company recently launched its first milk based formula dietary food DUTCH LADY MaxGro. A new campaign was also unveiled to compliment the launch of its latest innovative product. Themed "Cita-Cita Tinggi Mampu Dimiliki", the campaign aims to raise awareness of Malaysian children’s nutritional needs and promote regular height tracking to ensure their ambitions to grow taller and healthier are achieved, thus meeting their optimal growth potential. 

 Since the Covid-19 struck us all around the world; Many parents like me will tend to worry about their children and their future. Most importantly especially on our children's immunity and intellectual development. I for one am not concerned about the immunity part for my elder kids but for my darling girl, I know it is insufficient as she is still too young to take any supplements of capsules or tablets and the likes of this. Hence something that my daughter can consume or drink that is child-friendly that gives her the best nutrient her growing body needs is my priority!

That's when I came across Enfagrow A+ MindPro, a recommendation from a friend who shared with me about the benefits of it. And knowing Enfagrow who has been in the market for 100 years in expertise of children nutrition and being the pioneer in launching the DHA formula in the market more than a decase ago; Enfagrow A+ s now being upgrade to the Enfagrow A+ MindPro formulation that consists of Milk Fat Globule Membrane (MFGM) and the highest level of DHA*.

This new formula that launch this year 2021 makes Enfagrow A+ MindPro the only brand with MFGM & highest level of DHA*. The Enfagrow A+ Mindpro’s new growing up milk formulation is timely as research has shown that the consumption of MFGM enriched milk by young children was found to have a protective effect against gastrointestinal infections, producing a 35% decrease in the number of short febrile episodes (symptoms of fever). Coupled with DHA, MFGM works synergistically to provide dual benefits in supporting a child’s brain cell connections. Now talk about brain power! 

So why formula milk? Well being a breastfeeding mom of 7 years to my 3 kids, I would only want to give my children the best! However with my kids growing up, I would also want to support them with good support and nutrients to nourish their body because having fewer sick days simply mean the child is healthy, active and alert and that means they also can have more learning time and increased brain cell connections to support their learning process. In addition to nutrition, me as a parent, I can continue to guide my kids to developing a healthy lifestyle habits such as adequate rest, physical activity, proper hygiene and well-balanced eating habits to build strong immune system and further prevent from any unwanted illness. As they used to say, prevention is better than cure!

I also like how I can incorporate this into baking cookies for my kiddos to enjoy good nutrients in their favourite snack time too! Now the Enfagrow A+ MindPro launch kicks off the month-long with the amazing VR roadshow which was organised inconjunction with the introduction of the new formulation and will be accessible by all Malaysians. The VR approach was intended to allow both parents and children to take part in the games and potentially win the many amazing prizes starting from 19 January to 18 February 2021 from the safety of their homes. You can experience the first ever virtual reality children nutrition show by Enfagrow A+ MindPro HERE. 

Enfagrow A+ MindPro is now widely available in all major super and hypermarkets, Chinese medical halls, baby stores and major Enfagrow A+ official online stores including Lazada. To learn and find out more, please visit Enfagrow Official Website and Enfagrow Official Facebook.

Disclaimer: The information provided is for educational and communication purposes for children above one (1) year old only. It should not be construed as personal medical advice, nor for diagnosis or treatment. At all times, please ensure you seek the advice of a healthcare professional when you require medical advice and do so immediately when there is an emergency.

As a mother of 3 bubbly kids, giving my kids good supplements to support their daily lifestyle is important. And I've always been giving good probiotics to my kids. However, sometimes my kids love some variety in their snack times and I know I can always give them a treat with some yummilicious drinks and yogurts that is packed with good probiotics.

That's why today I am featuring about the Fernleaf CalciYum Cultured Milk Drink and CalciYum Yogurt. The yogurt on the other hand, my kids finished it, so I didnt get a chance to snap some photo of it, but I like how the Fernleaf CalciYum Yogurt is packed with 4 key nutrients such as Zinc, Vitamin A & D, Phocuslipids™ including 2x Calcium for strong bones and teeth. But with Fernleaf's live culture, it is important that it helps to support a good digestive system. Did I mention that you can eat it like ice cream when you freeze it?! Another key bonus to taking Fernleaf's CalciYum Yogurt is that each packet consumed is equivalent to consuming 100g of full cream milk! And the below is our favourite flavour! There's actually 8 flavours to choose from!

And like adults, sometimes my kids want some tasty drinks after their meals and that's where Fernleaf CalciYum comes into the picture! By providing them with their favourite flavoured beverages that can provide benefit to their healthy gut system, is a bonus for every parent!

So whether if they are at school or at home or at play, this beverage packs a handy design that is easily portable and filled with yummy goodness in it. And when I mention goodness, I meant inside out; 

The Fernleaf CalciYum is packed with A-Force consisting of Vitamin D and calcium for strong healthy bones and Probio DR20™ that is Fernleaf's patented probiotic ingredient that helps for better nutrient absorption and support the digestive system. 

My kids always enjoy a good time together as they play together, fight together and make fun of each other, but most importantly, they stay strong together.

My son actually built a mini lego delivery system because he says now everything I want, mommy can just order it and it will arrive straight to our home! Of course, if it ain't us (parents) being the delivery people, since we're in the new norm now, everything can be ordered online and delivered to your doorstep safe and sound! So we still get to support our healthy gut system at the comfort of our own home!

The Fernleaf CalciYum Cultured Milk Drink are available in packs of 110ml of all variants (Plain, Apple, Grape, Orange, Assorted). I always pick the Assorted variant because, there's just a flavour for everyone in my family! Another reason why I picked this for my kids, is the 'Healthier Choice' logo from Ministry of Health because they are low in sugar content! You can look up more info about Fernleaf CalciYUm at their website here.