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This article appeared on Wednesday 10 September 2014 in the South China Morning Post print edition as “Taking care of busyness”. For me, the period between the start of the school year and the end of the calendar year is traditionally even more hectic than usual. Earlier this year, I made a resolution to simplify my life. To help me understand how I became so “time-starved”, and what I could do about it, I read (and highlighted 40 per cent of the statements contained in) Brigid Schulte’s Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time. Schulte is an award-winning journalist whose book has given a comprehensive picture of being busy by interviewing sociologists, scientists, CEOs and at-home mothers. She cites studies on leisure time, gender bias, the impact of technology, and the modern workplace. First, Schulte explores today’s expectation of busyness, this maniacal need to be productive and give meaning to our lives. Having children means we devote countless more hours to making their lives productive. Schulte moves on to “the cult of intensive mothering”.

Dads’ involvement in reading aloud will create common interest for boys and expose girls to new subjects. By BMABHK Trainer, Percie Wong    

  I recently had coffee with friends who were emigrating to a small town in Australia. Aside from envying how the idyllic environment would influence the positive growth of their young child, we also pondered what it would be like for a Chinese child to grow up in a community where he would be the only non-Caucasian child.    

書伴我行（香港）基金會導師介紹電子圖書趨勢及如何減少電子書對我們的影響。 This article appeared on Tuesday 15 July 2014 in the South China Morning Post print edition as “How to get the most from e-books”. Exhibitors at last year’s Hong Kong Book Fair found that spending on electronic titles grew faster than for print. The trend is likely to continue at this year’s fair, which starts tomorrow. While it is not yet a mainstream activity in Hong Kong, the number of people reading electronic books will only increase. The 2012 Sun Hung Kai Property Reading Index found that just 12.8 per cent of the 800 people polled read e-books. But the format is attracting more young people – about one-third of readers aged 15 to 34 had read or downloaded books to a computer, mobile phone or tablet. A survey by publisher Scholastic of six to 17-year-olds, reinforces this: the proportion of children who read e-books almost doubled between 2010 and 2012, from 25 per cent to 46 per cent. The first digital storybooks beeped or talked back when readers pressed a button. Then came electronic “learning” books designed to assist with lite