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Walking around Hong Kong with the babies is a peculiar experience. The southern area of the region where we live is generally known as the more reserved and polite part of the territory. I haven’t travelled enough of the area to be able to confirm i...

The inaugural Teen Haven Golf Tournament fundraiser will tee off this Saturday. The charity event, rescheduled from last month after Tropical Storm Karl hit the island, will be held at the Belmont Hills Golf Course. Money generated from the tournamen...

Dear Dr Nekia, I’m in love. Two months ago I started dating my good friend, whom I have known for a year. Things are great, and it is a good relationship. He treats me like a queen, and is younger than I am but that doesn’t bother me. I do, however, ...

Whoever said it would only take “a few days” for me to get over jet lag — you’re a liar and we’re not friends anymore. As soon as 3pm rolls around, it feels like I’m hit by a wave on Horseshoe Bay during a storm surge. I can barely think straight l...

I write to you from underneath five suitcases, five carry-ons, two baby seats and that lifetime supply of diapers I told you about in one of my first columns. Our flight to Hong Kong is going to be 15 hours of pure, 100 per cent unparalleled fun. Pl...

Sometimes opportunities arise which you hadn’t really considered before. Maybe it’s a job or a new experience; when you have a family you have to consider the impact not only on you and your spouse, but your children. Well, my family is about to take...

Mama”, “dada”, “ineluctable”. These are some possible first words any parent is waiting with bated breath to hear their child speak. OK, maybe not all of them but the excitement around what your child might say is all the same as if they did say ine...

The first day of school … and all the preparation in the world hasn’t managed to ready our household for the accompanying chaos of trying to get out the door, fed, with all the necessary named items, in the correct uniform, washed and brushed to make...

You never really consider how powerful our colour association is in the Western world until you dress your daughter in blue or green to leave the house. Blue is boy and pink is girl. The look of surprise in people’s faces when you tell them that it’s...

Berne Furbert is not your average stage mother. When the opportunity to enter her daughter Desi-Amor Furbert Mallory in a modelling competition arose, she saw it as a way for her daughter to make friends. “It’s not about winning. I had a talk with h...

In honour of the Rio Olympics, where gladly, it came off without any international incidents (beside Mr Lochte’s interesting tales to the police), I want to share a proposed list of events at the Inaugural Baby Olympics. For the first time in history...

Parents caught up in “highly emotional” custody cases need to keep in mind the potentially huge costs of pursuing legal action, according to Family Centre’s Martha Dismont. Ms Dismont, speaking after a Supreme Court judge ordered a father to pay a $1...