Author Archives: Aileen

About Aileen

I blog about living and raising my son in Hong Kong - where toddlers have entrance interviews, parents keep test score spreadsheets, private school debentures can trade for more than half a million USD. Raising Rockstar's the most important thing I'll ever do. We show our true colors by the choices we make in bringing up our children. My blog is a message to my toddler son, about what the world and his parents are like today - for when he becomes a teenager and knows everything.

Just Because We Felt Like It

That’s what the actual Father’s Day “celebration” was – just hanging out, eating at weird times, napping at weird times (well, one of us is all spoiled about – get this- sleeping when she is tired - what’ll she think of next?), mall-crawling/people-watching, buying a … Continue reading

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Rockstarism #267 – How Things Work… Or Not Work…

#267 Listening to baby sounds… Me: How does she make that sound… Rockstar: (Knowledgeably) She’s gargling her own saliva.  Me: How d’you know? Rockstar: I used to do it too <been there, done that shrug> —————————————————————————————————- Me: Dumb ole wifi … Continue reading

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The Rockstars Wish Kings Happy Father’s Day

We’d recently found a storybook making kit and truth be told I hadn’t been too hopeful initially because I’d never seen Rockstar do anything like this before – I mean, he described diary writing as part of school work, I … Continue reading

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