Description:The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of children in Singapore. This book explores this transformation through anecdotes and memories through interviews with individuals hailing from different races and age groups, together with related archived materials from different sources. The components of childhood — birth, home, play, school, health and welfare — are revisited so as to provide useful insights about the past to young readers and at the same time serve as a nostalgic read for older readers.Written in a simple and accessible manner and filled with numerous photographs and specially commissioned cartoons, this book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in knowing about childhood as it was and is being experienced in Singapore.This book is also available in Chinese.Contents: Changing Times, Changing ChildhoodsHere Comes the Baby: Pregnancy, Birth Customs and Baby CelebrationsBringing Up Children: Childcare and Home LifeFrom Marbles to Media Gaming: Play, Pleasure and LeisureOf ABCs and 123s: How Singapore Children Studied and LearnedFrom Koyok to Clinic: Sixty Years of Children's HealthIn Their Best Interest: From Welfare to Well-beingReadership: Readers who are interested in knowing more about how childhood was and is being experienced in Singapore.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Singapore Childhood: Our Stories Then And Now. To get started finding Singapore Childhood: Our Stories Then And Now, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of children in Singapore. This book explores this transformation through anecdotes and memories through interviews with individuals hailing from different races and age groups, together with related archived materials from different sources. The components of childhood — birth, home, play, school, health and welfare — are revisited so as to provide useful insights about the past to young readers and at the same time serve as a nostalgic read for older readers.Written in a simple and accessible manner and filled with numerous photographs and specially commissioned cartoons, this book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in knowing about childhood as it was and is being experienced in Singapore.This book is also available in Chinese.Contents: Changing Times, Changing ChildhoodsHere Comes the Baby: Pregnancy, Birth Customs and Baby CelebrationsBringing Up Children: Childcare and Home LifeFrom Marbles to Media Gaming: Play, Pleasure and LeisureOf ABCs and 123s: How Singapore Children Studied and LearnedFrom Koyok to Clinic: Sixty Years of Children's HealthIn Their Best Interest: From Welfare to Well-beingReadership: Readers who are interested in knowing more about how childhood was and is being experienced in Singapore.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Singapore Childhood: Our Stories Then And Now. To get started finding Singapore Childhood: Our Stories Then And Now, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.