Today the life section (the exclamation mark quietly dropped in recent months) carrying a feature on the importance of child’s play. ("Taking play seriously" on the cover and ROOM FOR PLAY for the piece.) One stay-at-home mum on the floor with her two youngsters "believes in encouraging independence;" as might be guessed from the colourful sheets of insects she has distributed on the laminate. An expat has bought a bespoke step climber for her little boy and also a custom-made Pikler Triangle. Third "letting loose daughter's creativity" has constructed a make-shift play area behind the living-room sofa.
The state of play among enlightened Singaporean parents.
Our Jono on the other hand, concerned about the shuttered environment for his only child, has ventured further, renting his Tampines flat and taking a lease on a bungalow out at Changi replete with grass, vegetable garden, trees and a short walk to the water. Last report visiting toucans delighting his little girl.
The Straits Times
The Straits Times
NB. A piece just revised from the March files, somehow popping up here in the update. Blasted technology! Sorely missing my tech man, recently head-hunted by Google no less.
Greeting from Melbourne town.
NB2. And now this piece has been published in a pairing with “The Sandpit” by the Canadian journal, Anti-Languorous Project, No. 6
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