FollowA good teacher brings the best out from a child, stokes up the child’s interest and knows how to capitalize on the child’s strengths and interests. But a teacher who does not have an inkling of what child psychology is and always says discouraging and intimidating words to the child will only kill a child’s…
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Of Homework And Seven Year Olds
Alycia had forgotten to bring her school’s message book home one day and this spelt TROUBLE coz she wasn’t able to check the homework she had to do. Her school’s teachers are pretty strict and punishment will be imposed if students forget to do their homework or forget to bring a book. Alycia had forgotten to complete her…
Alycia’s Typical Afternoon
These days, the weather has been freaking sweltering. Poor Alycia, when she comes home from school in the afternoon, both her cheeks will be as red as a lobster. On most days, both her white shirt and blue pinafore will be soaked with her sweat. I tell yer, Alycia comes home from school looking like…
Homecooked Dishes… And My Bone-Loving Girls
These are some dishes that my mil cooked for dinner: Braised chicken with potatoes. And stir-fried red and yellow bell peppers, french beans and ‘kai paye koo’ (chicken drumstick fresh mushrooms). It’s called ‘kai paye koo’ as the huge mushroom stems resemble chicken drumsticks! I love them and so do #2 and #3 but not #1…
Alycia’s Wholesome Lunch
Alycia comes back from school at around 4pm twice a week. On days when she comes home late, she will be served a light lunch as dinner will be served early on those days. In school, she will grab a quick bite (nuggets, cakes, buns, biscuits) before she hurries off to her enrichment class. This…
What Has She Been Up To In School?
When Organic Samm wrote in Facebook that her 7-year old son comes back from school with charcoal black hands, knees and clothes everyday, I wonder what her son has been doing in school. Now I am wondering what my so-called well bahaved Alycia is doing in school too coz she also comes home with charcoal…
Bestest Jie Jie In The WWW
Bestest Jie Jie In The WWW
A very busy mum with many kids moulds a child into a very independent child. This is so true. My 2 older girls are very independent, especially Alycia. She’s one very caring jie jie too. The other night I was very busy and could not help Sherilyn blow dry her hair after her bath. I…
Ice-cream Girls
All 3 of my girls are ice-cream lovers. In fact everyone in our family loves ice-creams. Who doesn’t like ice-cream anyway, right? During the height of Baby’s UTI infections when she was less than a year old and had to be on oral antibiotics everyday, she would not even want to go near ice-creams. I…
Guess Who Had A Bad Temper tantrum?
The Latest Sure-Works Motivation For The Girls
Easy-To-Make California Roll
Alycia was craving for California roll / hand roll early this week. Day after day, she pestered my mil to make char siew California rolls for her. Some time back last year, my mil made some homemade char siew (roasted pork) and used them for the California roll. Since then Alycia was hooked on the…
Throes Of Being A Mother
News of a 9-year old girl who was almost abducted in her school recently sent shivers down my spine. I was waiting with Alycia at the lobby for the driver to pick her up yesterday morning when I read the news in the newspapers. I immediately showed the paper to her and exaggerated a bit…
Growing Pains
Ever since Alycia started attending Standard 1, she has been severely sleep deprieved. Each morning, she gets up at 6am sharp, leaves the house when the skies are still dark and on most days arrive home by 2pm. Twice a week when she has Han Yu Pin Yin class and Calligraphy class, she comes home…
A Promise Made In Writing
Rascal #2 has a nasty habit of not finishing her food, especially her dinner, and especially so if it’s rice with dishes. I get so annoyed that this is happening so frequently that I made her promise me that she will finish her meals… in writing! Once her promise is broken, she can say sayonara…
Completely Burnt Out
Last night after dinner, hubs brought us to my supplier’s place to collect my customers’ clothes. By the time we reached home, it was almost 10pm. Alycia who had to wake up at 6am to prepare for school and had skipped her afternoon nap as she had to attend Mandarin tuition was so burnt out that…