![]() It was a "way for Gabby to work on a long-term project", says Ms Teoh, a former journalist, who assigned her daughter to write 300 words a day from the time after her Primary 5 examination. They hint they won't date you if you are not pretty enough."īesides, in the last two years, she was busy writing her first book, apocalyptic fiction Run, published by mum's Bubbly Books firm. Gabby says: "Boys at this age are very gross. She has not brought a boy home for at least half a year, says her mum. She divorced her first husband and the father of her two daughters in 2008 and married Mr Yong, 38, an editorial consultant, last October.Īny "mystique" about the opposite sex for Gabby, 14, a Secondary 3 student at St Margaret's, seems to have worn off for now. Worse, it would force her to hide from us," says Ms Teoh, 41, who consulted then-boyfriend, Yong Shu Chiang, on the matter. ![]() "We knew that once we laid down rules like, 'You cannot be friends with boys', it wouldn't be enforceable. The three or four boys Gabby got to know joined their family lunches or hung out at the family's five-room HDB flat in Bishan, so mum could keep an eye on things. Author-publisher Eliza Teoh was "uncomfortable" when her elder daughter Gabby Tan started her "boyfriend phase" two years ago at the age of 13, but she kept her cool. ![]()
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