Written by : Registered Dietitian (Australia) Chung Yong Man   Children should walk more and do more exercise. My good friend May has always wanted to challenge the marathon 10km race. We agreed to train together once a week. Since she seldom exercises, I suggested her to start with a brisk walk first and try running only after she got used to it. After the exercise, we went to the convenience store to buy drinks and May chose sports drinks without saying a word.     ” I see that runners bring their own sports drinks and they claim to be good for energy, so I drink them in my spare time, at least it’s better

Written by：Family Dynamics Psychotherapist　　　           Children’s Play Therapist Lee Wai Ting   In the new school year, children will begin to take dictation tests again. Although dictation may look simple, the skills required are actually very complicated. The skills required are called “distracted concentration”, where you have to find the strokes of the words in your head and write them out by hand while listening to the teacher and remembering the next sentence to be dictated. Writing while listening and remembering, sometimes writing the wrong word and deleting it before writing, racing against time, it’s super hard!   Therefore, in order to master the dictation skills and get good grades, we need to master the three skills

Written by: Pang Chi Wah, Registered Educational Psychologist, New Horizon Development Centre   During the school season, we always hear sad cries at the entrance of the school, and it is always a headache for parents when children do not want to go to school alone without their parents. Because newborns lack the ability to protect themselves, survive and feed themselves, they must rely on their parents in their daily lives. This is not only true for humans, but also for babies of other mammals, such as dogs, lions, and dolphins, who must rely on their parents for survival.   As they grow older, some children are able to live more independently and gradually become independent