It grew till the secondary school parents wanted to have another group to discuss their own issues. It seemed that I was not the only one that wished I had a place to go to for school and education related discussion. It is much better than picking up the phone or texting your query to 10 friends in those days before Whatsapp. Sometimes you get an answer almost instantly when you ask a question, almost faster than Google Search. The parents in the group are really helpful. The group is called the Malaysia Primary and Secondary School Parents On Facebook. So I started a group and invited 50 of my blogger friends to join my group. I wished I had a platform to ask other parents about how to register my child for school, where and what type of school bags to buy, co-curricular activities, school holidays, exams and even homework help. I didn't have anyone to ask when I had problems as they started schooling. It's called " Banana Mom's Guide To Preparing For Chinese School" I'm glad I did because it continues to be my favourite place to blog though I have several other blogs including my personal dotcom.Īs my children grew and by the time they were ready for school, I had accumulated so many articles about my dilemma as a banana mom trying to send her kids to Chinese School.
I called my dotcom Mumsgather too for lack of a better idea, but I didn't have the heart to delete this first blog, so I changed the name to "Parenting Times" and kept it. Two years into blogging, everyone told me that it was better to get a dotcom for my blog and so I did. Many of them still call me MG to this day. The name stuck and I became known as MG among my online blogging friends. At the time, I called it "Mumsgather" because I thought it would be a good place for mums to gather to chat as was popular during the old blogging days.
My firstborn was just a baby then and my second not born yet. At the time, I started it as a personal blog. You are reading this because you are on my parenting blog - The Parenting Times.
Today, I will take a step back and tell you about our story instead. I have been blogging a lot about enrichment centers, products, educational news and events. I created this video yesterday and it got me reminiscing about how our parenting digital platform came to be.
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