In this episode, Love Bonds co-founders, Serene and Michelle, encourage parents to find pockets of time to communicate with their spouse, and how families can start a new get-together habit during gatherings :)
In this episode, hear from Love Bonds co-founders, Serene and Michelle, why it is important for parents to encourage intentional conversations with their children, and how they can go about doing so!
Elvin and Esther from the Foong family share their personal stories on dealing with disagreements about parenting. Just like many parents, they too had differences in parenting style and managed to work out a solution together. They also learnt more about each other's strengths and weaknesses and how to play tag team when parenting.
In this episode, Elvin and Esther from the Foong family shares about how they sought to find an area of agreement as their first step to parent as a team. Both of them wanted to be parents who are present for their children and made sure that their actions all worked towards their vision. Another nugget of wisdom that Elvin and Esther shared for an easier parenting journey is to build a strong relationship and marriage.
For Elvin and Esther, they found their unique and important roles of being a dad and mum respectively by tapping on their strengths. They also take care of each other as spouses by allowing him/her to take time for self-care activities.
Elizabeth Wu, co-founder and COO of Trehaus, shares about her main challenges when transforming from a stay-home mum to mumpreneur. She struggled to balance the "invisible load of motherhood" and her business commitment, as well as to find the headspace for her busy thoughts.
The support that Elizabeth received from her "tribe" helped her to continuously grow her business into what she envisioned. She also thanks her husband for being one of her greatest supporters. The couple grew together and learnt to communicate their needs as parents and as spouses, and thus being able to successfully parent as a team.
Elizabeth Wu, co-founder and COO of Trehaus, shares about her journey and motivation to transform from a stay-home mum to mumpreneur. Elizabeth felt that her experience as an entrepreneur can value add to her role as a mother - she can impart different kinds of lessons to her children and create an environment to nurture them to be critical thinkers as well.
Her husband played a pivotal role in Elizabeth's transformation as he encourages her to explore and try something for her personal growth.
Parcsen Loke, Head of Programmes at Centre for Fathering, talks about how couples with different parenting style can still find a way to effectively parent as a team. Parcsen also uses beach volleyball to illustrate what it means to parent as a team.
Parcsen voices out concerns of new fathers and possible reasons why they do not use the paternity leave in full. He continues to stress the importance of a father's early involvement in a child's life. Tune in to find out how parents can work together as a team and be more involved in their child's life at an early stage.
Almost every mother that works has working mum guilt. Sher-li, founder of Mums@Work, shares why mothers feel guilty over not spending enough time with their kids and work, and why they should not compare themselves with other fellow mums.
Sher-li shares more about her motivations to start Mums@Work. She also talks about why balance in work and family is something important for mums and dads to talk about, and for mums who wish to take on flexi-work options, entrepreneurship or a full-time job again, how the spouses can plan and discuss in detail.