Author Archives: Cindy Soo

About: Cindy Soo

Little Red Dot Mum was started as a blog in November 2015. It was born out of a wish of a mum residing in Singapore to leave a legacy to her children of how to raise a healthy loving home and family. The affectionate term ‘Little Red Dot’ is chosen to indicate the geographical position of Singapore 🇸🇬 in South East Asia. Much of its information shared on its social media platforms also caters to the local community staying in Singapore (a quick add here: the flower seen tucked in Little Red Dot’s Mum’s bright red icon is the Vanda Miss Joaquim, Singapore’s national flower:) The site’s social media platforms provides support for individuals and families in caregiving for the dependent young and old, self-care for caregivers, and easy home economics to raise a healthy happy home. We hope you leave our sites healthier, happier and with tips and recipes you can use easily! Feel free to drop us a line at littlereddotmum@gmail.com (we love ‘pat-pats’ on the shoulder😄) or how to feature your product / service endorsements on all our major social media platforms. See you around!

Why My Family Still Use Photo Albums

You can touch them.. The reason is that simple.. Flipping the pages in a photo album is akin to how some people still like to read an actual book versus reading from a Kindle.. While others prefer to appreciate their photos from a digital source, my family members like to flip over each page of […]

Why It Is Important To Use The Right Grammar In Speech

I was in the waiting area in a doctor’s clinic the previous week and I overheard “Wait how long more..?” I knew what the lady meant.. She meant: ‘How long more do I have to wait?’ After all, it is common to hear a true-bred Singaporean omit parts of speech amongst other deletions in their […]

Empathy Is An Important Character Quality To Teach Children

How to be encouraging? Be kind. You might be asking : What if I am not compassionate by nature, how do I egg that next person to carry on? Then I think the next best thing is empathy..being empathetic does help light up a candle in someone else’s dark space ..giving hope, love and cultivating […]

Book Review : Second – Act Careers

Career reinvention ? Semi -retirement ? I would want to live out the second stage of my life with significance. So whilst prowling the http://www.stretcher.com/, I chanced upon Gary Foreman’s( editor of Dollarstetcher) write-up about a book by Nancy Collamer called “Second Act Careers – 50+ Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement” http://www.stretcher.com/stories/15/15mar02c.cfm I […]

Mother’s Day

A couple of weeks ago, as Mother’s Day approached, I was feeling grumpy… Those advertisements from furniture and household appliances stores or chain restaurants promoting good deals weren’t doing much to lighten my mood either… Maybe age is catching up.. Then I went to revisit my children’s gifts to me every Mother’s Day (from the […]

How Much Allowance To Give A Primary / Secondary School Going Child

FINANCIAL TOOL 1 – ‘FOUR JAR’ SYSTEM When my older daughter was in Primary school, she was able to buy a whole series of Winx Club magazines from her savings. She still has it – her pride, and joy (from two years of persistent saving) – and refuses to let me ‘donate’ it to charity. […]

Leaving Behind A Digital Legacy

Blogging did not occur by accident. I had been thinking about it for a while and one fine night just before the New Year chime rang signalling the end of 2012, and the start of 2013, I plunged into Google’s Blogger and the rest , as they say, is history. Other than finding the self-discipline […]

Setting A Child Up For Success In The Kitchen

Teaching my children to cook an economical meal at home has always been one of my parenting objectives. I think all these years the only thing that has spurred me on to learn to ‘cook anything with everything’ has been the desire to impart to them the skills of menu planning for daily meal preparation After several years […]