3rd week in school

Russell, my 4yo+ son who is in kindergarten 1 told me that he went to school yesterday, so he does not need to go to school today... in fact, he says these every morning when I asked him to get ready for school... it's lucky that the eldest does not has this problem.

Instead of just asking them to write words and learn from books, I decided to teach him more often day and night from surrounding things like in the bedroom, in the house, what are those things. My intention is to eliminate his fears of papers and books. I want to encourage him to learn and eventually will pick up his favourites book to ready willingly. I'm proud to say that I've had achieved this with my eldest.

Homework blues...

that's what they bring back from school everyday - homeworks...




endless writing of words...do you think they like and look forward towards this type of learning? I can say that even if you ask them to write the whole exercise book with the same words, they still cannot remember what have been written...why? because it's not effective and damn boring!!!

Kids now are exposed to tremendous type of multimedias such as computers, softwares, games, social activities where learning become alives. It's hard to make them sit and write tones and tones of words daily. It's a torture to them. It doesn't inspire creativity, thinking and problem solving, but to kill their interest towards learning. I don't encourage all these, frankly speaking. And I'm struggling to see all these. There are many other ways to teach that can excite our young learner.

For example, we can let them do exercises like these which I 'borrowed' others...


By doing these homework, my children will ask questions like:- "Mommy, how to do this?"; "Mommy, then?"; "Mommy, am I doing it right?"...

Being a dedicated parent/teacher is never been easy...

Dragonboat mishap sad to see this

As a hardcore Penangnite, my heart sank and tears dropped down... a great loss of 5 bright students and a teacher over this unfortunate incident. Hopefully with this experience, those authorities involved will be more wise in planning out this kind of outdoor activities and put more care to our people and children especially. Life is precious.

Yes, we're ambitious sometimes in conquering greater challenges. But, are we ready for that? Are we ready for any emergency if it happens? If not, we're simply just risk their life and 'throw them to hell' as in Chinese proverb. It is sad to see all these. A lot of things can be prevented if one really cares...

Don't just wait thing to happen then only take action, it might be too late.

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