12/05/2023
Do you think it matters to kids whether or not their parents attend their school concerts? Is it acceptable if grandparents or only one parent attends it assuming the kid is performing?
As a child, my parents never attended any of my performances nor sports day or anything. I think it made me feel unworthy because whatever it is they were doing was obviously more important. They never explained why they weren't coming.
What are your thoughts on this?
Would it be better if parents explained why they couldn't make it for a child's performance?
07/03/2021
Kids and Pets
I am very happy that we got a puppy that my kids wanted 4 weeks ago. It’s taught them responsibility, frustration, disappointments, challenges, creativity in how to deal with problematic events and a whole lot of decision making.
I LOVE IT!!!
Today, I even made them take the puppy themselves into the vet. This means they had to fill up all the registration forms themselves and ask the Doctor the relevant questions themselves and also listen to the instructions of the Doctor whilst my husband and I had a short date.
It’s been such an enriching experience for them having to remember to feed the puppy thrice daily and take him out for his poos, weekly baths and daily play time.
I am sure they’d be relieved once they go back to school. 😄
26/02/2021
Children learn from their parents 🎈
My girls, especiallly the younger one, will make me a drink at any time of the day, without me asking, just because.
Sometimes it’s a cup of tea, sometimes coffee, sometimes cold green tea, sometimes she opens a can of coke, sometimes a glass of Ningxia Red, sometimes just plain water. Very rarely does she ask first.
Today, Tessa made me a banana chocolate milkshake (because we had 3 bananas about to die) with some chocolate protein powder and it was super cold and yummy!! Tia goes, “I put the strawberry on, Mummy. Make sure you eat it!”
And where do they get this from?
My husband who makes me coffee every single morning without me asking, tea at 4pm and Milo before bed. Like clockwork. The girls see my gratitude whenever I get an unexpected drink and they follow.
So now I’m trying to figure out how come they don’t follow in cleaning the house and doing the laundry....🤔
What activities do your kids follow you in?
07/01/2021
Quality Time with Kids
How often do you spend time with your kids daily? Real, present quality time.....no hand phones, no TV, no newspaper nor book to distract you from focusing 100% on them.
Spending time with kids used to bore me especially when I raised my firstborn single handedly without any help. It was like talking to a child all day, every day, who could hardly talk back. It was tough!
But when my girl started attending school at Chiltern House, the lovely teacher Pat, advised me to spend at least an hour with her daily, purely with her. Nothing else. Best advice ever.
I have practised that promise till now short of seriously busy or tiring days, but for sure, my quality time with the kids is my number one priority. It is for me as much as for them because after all, whilst they need the reassuring unconditional love, I am comforted that they grow into strong, self assured adults.
If you’re not doing it yet, start spending some real quality time with your kids. After awhile, watch their behaviours change.
15/11/2020
This was exactly my daughter as a baby!
She’d eat by herself on her high chair and put spaghetti sauce all over her head, face and floor!
And if have to clean up after every single meal. By myself. No helpers.
Look what she sent me today, this article. She wants me to know it was all worth it.
Awwww......of course it was all worth it. ❤️
Messy children make better learners
Parents, let your children get messy in the high chair. They learn better that way. That's according to a new study from the University of Iowa, which concludes that a 16-month-old's setting and degree of interaction enhances his or her ability to identify nonsolid objects and name them. Results are...
21/10/2020
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09/10/2020
In the greatest comforts of an entire home, what inspires a little girl to do her Ronald Dahl reading in a stuffy store room filled with stuff?
Quirky much?
Does the story encourage her to experience such a space?
Was it too noisy anywhere else?
Whatever the case, I am grateful to my friend for giving me the idea to have a reading logbook for Tia that I get to sign daily with a star. She reads a few pages and writes the words down that she does not understand into her logbook and we review them every single day. Love it!
I hope this grows a passion of reading because her last 10 years were spent much more on screen than off screen.
14/06/2020
Nothing like a smashing water balloon fight on a hot, sunny Sunday!
It gave them speed of action, eye movement coordination, balance, and pain tolerance. Haha.
They were strictly warned not to throw a single water balloon at me or there would have been hell on Earth.
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