My almost 11-year-old daughter, Isha, has Down’s Syndrome. I shared Isha’s story and diagnosis publicly for the first time here…
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makchic’s publisher, Laych Koh shares her thoughts on culture, changes and current events in her monthly column, The Dilated Pupil. …
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Navigating parenthood can sometimes be terrifying, but going through it as a single parent takes it up a notch. Juggling…
My 8 and 10-year-old boys, Nolan and Liam, speak with an indiscernible accent. Liam was born in Malaysia, and moved…
In March 2021, my children’s father was diagnosed with oral cancer for the second time in 15 years. The first…
In the first instalment of her two-part series on creativity, makchic contributor Wei Lin of @colours.of.play shared her thoughts on whether creativity…
The perennial question that every parent would like to know the answer to: is creativity in children an in-born, inherited…
Mother. Think, for a moment, of the images that this evokes in your mind. For some, the word “mother” is…