All About Your Child

Android Handphone for kids has become the latest topic among parents. From simple games to creative scribbles to educational story telling Apps, your kids are definitely spoilt for choice. We were lucky to be able to receive a free Motorola Android Handphone a month ago. Now that we have 4 handphones, we decided to let the kids have fun with this free phone and you can never imagine what they did with it.

Just on the first day of owning the new handset, the kids have downloaded, with our approval, more than 20 Android Apps which were meant for kids in a short time span of 10 minutes! Android Handphone are considered to be too sophisticated for some generation Y, yet they seemed like a piece of cake to the kids in generation Z.

Seriously, even my husband and I have some issues with how these Android Handphone works, but my elder son just needed less than ten minutes and found the solution. Amazing!

Ever since my sister bought the iPhone, the kids had been playing the Apps on her iPhone. We were rather surprise to find iPhone games in Android Market too. The kids downloaded Angry Birds, Pizza, Restaurant, PuzPenguin, Coin Frenzy, Tap Galaxy, Flick Fishing, Ninja Free, Tap Resort, Heads Will Roll, Ranch Rush, Tap Birds Extinct, Air Control Lite, aTilt 3D Labyrinth, Break The Blocks Lite, Disney Puzzle, Hangman, Find Differences, Paper Toss, Papijump, Ranging Thunder 2, excitebike and the list goes on. Among all, both my 5 and 7 year old boys love to play Ranging Thunder 2.

The above Android Apps are free and as you can tell, they are mainly games. Yet, there are many Android Handphone Apps that are really popular among the kids, which are educational. These Android Apps include LOL Libs, MouthOff, Mystic Maggie Story Lite, Monkey Kick Off, Toddler Lock, Smart Mini Kids, BrainGoal, Carddroid Math, See&Say, Dash & Ditto’s Playground and the list goes on.

Android Handphone for Kids can be a good mixture of fun, it can also be a good tracking gadget for parents. There are several very useful surveillance Android Apps when you search through the Android market. Top three, in my opinion, that are most useful for parents who wish to watch over their kids for safety reasons are namely: M-Spy, RL Watcher and IP Webcam

Downloading M-Spy from Android Market to your Android phone, allows you to set up a PIN number. Once the PIN number is set, your Android phone and your kids Android phone get linked up and hence is then able to act as an audio bug regardless where you are.

To me, RL Watcher is the ultimate surveillance Apps created thus far. RL Watcher allows your Android Handphone to remotely sense sound or movement. What about when you are far away from your kids and you would like to know how well the babysitter or your kids are doing at home? With IP Webcam Android Handphone App downloaded, your Android Handphone is transformed into a webcam immediately. With this, you can now place your Android phone at home to monitor your kids when you are off to work.

Whatever the purpose of it could be, getting an Android Handphone for your kids does have its benefits.

Singapore is still not getting the number of babies needed for the population levels to remain stable without extra measures like ‘importing’ foreign talents to stay in this Garden City.

60,000 babies are NEEDED each year to make this a possibility. In other words, it needs a fertility rate of 2.1 babies per woman so that the population can replace itself naturally.

The number shows 39,935 babies were born in 2008 which is the highest number since 2002, 40,760 babies. The latest number includes the babies from the 1 million foreigners who work and stay in Singapore.

Singapore’s population is only 4.84 million and with the massive new job opportunities popping out from the opening of Marina Bay Sands^™, more immigrants are expected to make Singapore their home.

Marina Bay Sands^™ would be a place with three cascading hotel towers , retail stores, trendy Celebrity Chef restaurants, endless entertainment at the theatres, the hottest night clubs and a Las Vegas-style casino. Business visitors will also enjoy the extensive Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) facilities featuring state-of-the-art technology, highly flexible exhibition halls, and a convention centre that can host over 45,000 delegates.

While everywhere else is talking about recession and retrenchment, Singapore is offering opportunities to secure your rice bowl, would you come over? I think the attraction is obvious.

Well, the Marina Bay Sands^™ will be up and running late 2009 or maybe early 2010, so we shall see how the new influx of foreigners could help with the number of babies produced.

As I write this, I find it really weird, to be conditioned subconsciously in the mind that with better living standards, babies can be produced ‘more naturally’???

Babies are born because a married couple wants to build a family, irregardless if they are rich or poor, isn’t it? Though money is definitely an issue to consider in sustaining a family’s expenses, it is still not the main consideration, isn’t it?

Anyhow, I will just sit back and see how the impact of this new landmark would have on the number of babies born when they do the count in year 2010.