If you’ve only got a minute: Beyond Grades: Raising children is about more than just good grades. We need to look at their whole development. Feelings Matter: Help children understand and manage their feelings. Talk about emotions, teach...
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Why should children be at the heart of policy?
If you’ve only got a minute: The Economic Reason: We can’t afford to waste anyone’s potential. People are our “only natural resource,” and fewer children are being born than ever before. The Scientific Reason: Our children only get one...
Respectful Parenting in Singapore: Accepting Our Children and Their Unique Needs
If you’ve only got a minute: Respectful Parenting means treating children with kindness and respect while setting clear rules. It’s Not About Giving In! Kids still need boundaries, just with understanding. Better Than Strict or Permissive...
Nurturing Secure Attachment in Singapore’s Children and Teens
If you’ve only got a minute: Why Secure Attachment Matters: It helps children feel safe, confident, and resilient. Supports school success and strong relationships. How to Build It: Babies (0-2): Cuddle, respond, talk, and play. Kids...
Don’t buy your own ‘koyok’: why we must reform primary education
“Noun. koyok (uncountable) (Singapore, informal) A phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.”—Wiktionary “Don’t buy your own koyok” was a common injunction from one of my first bosses, an...
PSLE Optional? How Will That Work!?
EveryChild.sg was formed by concerned parents to highlight the need for Singapore’s education system to improve. So far, we’ve shown you: That the PSLE serves no learning or science-based purpose; That no other country with a great...
6 Better Ways To Assess Learning than PSLE
At the 2022 budget debate in parliament (7 March), Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing tried to explain why tests and exams in our schools cause so much stress: Because we use it to compare ourselves/ our children to others, rather than...
Report Summary: Academic Stress Among Primary Schoolers in Singapore
If you’ve only got a minute: EveryChild.SG interviewed 15 Singapore-based child psychologists and psychiatrists for a report on the potential link between academic stress during primary school and poor mental health among young...
Open Letter from Educators on Education Reform
Dear Prime Minister, Subject: Proposal from Educators for Reforming Primary Education in Singapore In your 2020 speech at the NUS115 Distinguished Speaker Series, as the former Minister for Education, you had highlighted the critical...
How To Reduce Class Sizes in Primary School
MOE recently published a parliamentary reply and an EdTalk piece on reducing class sizes and how class sizes are determined. MOE admits that “a typical form class size is around 40 students” and its current explanation for why...