Hong Kong is full of time-starved parents and equally time-starved children, who often find themselves struggling to navigate through insufficient family time. Some parents claim that the time spent eating breakfast or dinner with their children is like walking on eggshells – they must tread lightly…

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(from Left to Right) Yau Wing-yi with her daughter Chan Sin-chun and her son Chan Long-kiu, which have divised a pay for performance system at home a pay and reward system for how they perform and behave, at her home in Ho Man Tin. 21JAN13

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