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Continue reading →: Our Family’s ADEM Journey: A Toddler’s Recovery Story from Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
Our 3.5-year-old daughter’s ADEM recovery story. From mysterious fever to diagnosis, treatment with steroids and IVIG, and full recovery from pediatric autoimmune encephalitis.
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Continue reading →: My Trilingual Journey: Growing Up Multilingual and Raising Multilingual Kids
Growing Up in a Trilingual Family Growing up in a trilingual family wasn’t always easy, but it profoundly shaped who I am today. At home, my siblings and I were only allowed to speak Chinese, but we switched to Spanish and English outside the house. Being one of the few…
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Continue reading →: Family-Friendly SF Bay Area Neighborhoods & School Insights 2025
Deciding which parts of the Bay Area to settle down is a hotly debated area, and the discussion usually depends on each individual, couple, and family’s preferences and priorities. In the past fifteen years, I have had the opportunity to live in Berkeley, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Danville. Like…
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Continue reading →: Work-Life Balance for Parents: Choosing Between Startups and Stable Companies
I often hear from people that if you want work-life balance (WLB), you need to work at a larger company that has a more or less 9-5 job. This advice especially resonates with parents with young children who are juggling family and career. My coworker, who recently came back from maternity leave, left for…
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Continue reading →: Top 3 after-school pick-up options for full-time working moms
As my preschool-aged son will start Pre-K and Kindergarten in a year or two, I am starting to put together an after-school pick-up plan. Pre-K and Kindergarten hours run from 8am to 11:45am, and elementary school goes until 2:30pm, which isn’t much better. As a full-time employee, I can’t just…
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