M A S T E R C L A S S ❤️🤲✨ Here we go again, another eight weeks of unlearning and listening. Another eight weeks of holding sacred space to just slow down and pause. Quietly curious, an unfolding, both for the mamas that I lead and lead me to sacred inner worlds to repair and hold in reverence. It’s an invitation to come home, to come inside to hidden places and loud thoughts that sometimes explode out when it hurts or we feel lost and overwhelmed. The intense pressure of motherhood and fatherhood wears on a marriage so we make safe space to play, ask, laugh, cry, see. Eight weeks and for some, an additional one-on-one centered around science and play, an action plan tailored intimately to their family created over conversation and partnership. Fuel for all the days and weeks after the program, a guide of sorts to remind them of their why and how and what. We call it a groundbreaking rework of traditional parenting programs. But that’s just really fancy for we do it a little different and start with you. We take the science of what we know and use it to fiercely listen and fight for the child inside and in front of you, and you don’t have to do it alone. We gather together, make mistakes, share our stories, care deeply and cheer each other home. What does your head and heart know? Five cohorts in, each one unique and magically special to the little community that they build. I love that they come from around the world and all have such depth and beauty to add. We teach people, not topics. We go rogue. We run wild. We get curious. For mama, it is a welcome to my heart. Carved out in there is all the mamas and daddies and their little ones that have come before. When you come through the program, you are intimately fought for, genuinely loved, relentlessly believed in. Known and called by name. September 2021 cohort, we are so excited to welcome you not only to the program but to the village. We’ve been waiting for you. We are ready. ❤️✨ Let’s grow together. 🌱 #respectingparenting #rachealkwacz #respectfulparenting

Pictures from Friday! It was solo parenting for the day because Alvin couldn’t apply leave. We started with fun at the playground at 8am followed by McDonald’s for breakfast. We also visited my parents, more playground fun before I took them home for their naps. Gave them their tea break after they woke up. When they were done, I took out the stroller and said we are heading out!! They accompanied me to the shopping mall for my spectacles fitting before we hopped onto 2 trains to meet Papa. While waiting for Papa to finish work, the children ran freely on the lawn at Raffles Place, had a go on the swing, people-watched and when they started to get a little too crazy for me, I took out the snacks! Snacks always work 😛 When Papa joined us, we took a walk together to the Merlion, it was the kids’ first time there! We were blessed with beautiful weather! The sun shone down fiercely and I was perspiring profusely everywhere! I couldn’t be bothered about how I looked anymore, I had my hair all tied up. But it was so much fun, just the 3 of us and seeing the smiles on their faces, I will do it again in a heartbeat!

This dinner at @luckyhouse_privatekitchen was booked well over a year ago because ever since @huatkaliao’s eldest nephew took us there in 2017, I’ve been hooked on Chef Sam Wong’s cooking. As for the menu, I only requested for two of my favourites because leaving the rest of it to Chef Sam usually means the possibility of being stunned by some exciting items. True enough, that’s what transpired. Have a look at what he served us: 1. Double-boiled Soup - With the tonne of ingredients including Monkey Head Mushrooms used to make it, the soup which had been simmering since late morning over a charcoal stove, was so concentrated I couldn’t see the bottom of my spoon, let alone my bowl. Every sip triggered soft sighs of pleasure. 2. Steamed Shovel-nose Ray - I’d not eaten this delicacy in over a decade and was thrilled that Chef Sam had specially procured it for me as a surprise. It’s basically 100% collagen that we were digging into, and it tasted sublime smothered in the fragrant fried garlic oil. 3. “Lucky Chicken” - One of my two requested dishes, it was as insanely aromatic and juicy as the previous times. Although we didn’t follow @szeliang888’s footsteps of throwing rice into the pot to soak up the unbeatable “zhup” (sauce), we did splash it over our bowls of white rice. So darn shiok. 4. Stirfried Kai Lan and Ikan Bilis - Don’t underestimate the simplicity of this coupling because it is fiercely powerful. 5. Twice-cooked Duck - Instead of the Lucky House Signature Charcoal-roasted Duck, Chef Sam presented us with something different. A dish with its roots in Guang Xi, China, the cooking process required the duck to be poached whole first before being chopped up and steamed. I found the taste light and clean, which is rather uncommon for the way this poultry is usually prepared in Singapore. But I enjoyed it as its natural flavours were highlighted. The topping of sautéed garlic elevated that further. 6. Crayfish Horfun - The other dish I requested was my all-time favourite carb here. I had zero qualms flinging myself at it once the rice noodles were properly tossed in the crayfish juices and shallot oil 😋😋 ⬇️Continued in Comments⬇️