All About Your Child

Does your child like Ben 10? So far, I have yet to know of a girl who likes Ben 10. And was pleasantly surprised to see boys AND GIRLS appearing at the Ben 10 live show during the June 2010 school holidays.

Yes yes yes, this is a belated blog post. And if you can remember my few June blog post, I was hardly at home! *laugh* Always out of the house playing with my boys and having as much fun as we can as a family, which we cannot enjoy when the boys are schooling.

For those of you who likes Ben 10 would probably have gone to United Square during those 2 weeks to see Ben 10 and his cousin Gwen in action. When Ben first came out, Allan’s first comment was the same as my first thought “This is the Fat version of Ben.” *laugh*

It was pretty cool that the Ben 10 live show was a daily event and not just for the weekends. Thus as usual, we head down during the weekdays so that we need not fight with the crowd for a space on the ground.

The alien which Ben Tenison ‘changed’ into was Chromastone, which was the same Ben 10 character T-Shirt which Binbin was wearing that day. He was especially delighted. Its like seeing his favourite Ben 10 character came to life. *giggle*

Does your child like Ben 10 too?

For most of us in this comfortable safe environment in Singapore, we might not know or might not fully understand how children are being treated in other countries, like child trafficking.

Child Trafficking is something that is so common worldwide, but we are just unaware. For my young readers, child trafficking is an illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of prostitution, forced labor, child marriage and other slavery reasons.

Children who are trafficked for prostitution could end up serving as many as 30 men a day!!! Its horrible what child trafficking can do to the little minds which are suppose to be so pure and innocent.

Why am I talking about this today? I just read an email which said:

Stop Child Trafficking Now

Their Website is :  http://www.sctnow.com/

The name says it all but they are committed to stopping the illegal trade of children.. which is much more common than I would have ever thought.. and it is a worldwide problem.  The website has a lot of information on it .. but I warn you if you are like me it can be upsetting.. what some of these kids are put through is horrible…

Anyway SCTnow.com is working hard to help these kids that many times have no body to turn to for help.

SCTnow would appreciate any support but right now they are in a contest that could help them get some funding.. if you think this is a worth cause please Go and vote for them :

1. Click here to vote–
http://apps.facebook.com/apxgivesback/

2. Select Pacific Region

3. Scroll down to SCTNOW and vote for them.

Also Feel Free to follow them on  twitter  and you could retweet their tweets etc..

Thanks for any help you can provide to SCTnow.com

This was sent to me by a friend. I am not asking you to vote or anything. Just that this short email on Child Trafficking made my heart ached and reminded me that it is so important to be grateful and thankful every single day that we are in Singapore, a place where we can let our children roam around freely.

In places where child trafficking is present, children out of sight can means children out of the parent’s life. Worse, there have been cases where these child traffickers literally snatch the children away from the unwilling parent’s arms. Its unbelievable, but its true.

Child Trafficking‘s bottom line is money isn’t it? When it comes to money, it is not surprising what people will do or will not do. Child Trafficking will continue if the need of money and the lost of sanity prevails.

How are we going to stop Child Trafficking, when the basis of the problem is so difficult to solve?