So sometimes Caitlin would ask to buy a strip of candy, like Mentos or Sugus. She tells me that she shares them with her school friends- I believe her. No doubt she may keep one or two more for herself but I think the fact that they generally finish so quickly is some kind of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'life skills'
Led by poor example
August 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Caleb the heir, Education, life skills
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Looking forward
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · A father's POV, Education, Parenting musing, life skills
Caitlin was contemplative in the car this morning. Will standard 1 also have gym class? (Like she has now in preschool) What will they teach? “PE”? What’s that? What did you do in PE? What about when you were in standard 2, 3, 6, Daddee? Gym, computer class, and the short swimming lesson, are weekly [...]
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Learning to share
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Caleb the heir, Parenting rules, life skills, siblings
iPhones can have games. Daddee has 2 kids. The 2 kids are of the ages now where they start to share almost similar levels of gameplay. They also don’t quite yet know how to share between themselves. And Daddee has an iPhone. You know the rest of the story. So tonight Caitlin had a “brilliant” [...]
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Downside of being popular?
June 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, life skills
Yesterday was (also) Caitlin’s school’s parent-teacher meeting. Chief among the things that Teacher Rachel told me was that Caitlin is among the popular kids in her only-15-student class. It’s not surprising really. Caitlin makes friends very easily. She approaches humans her height, greets them with her smile/grin, engages them in what they may be up [...]
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Do you admire your own child?
June 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · A father's POV, Caitlin the heiress, The future, life skills
I do. At my 5 year old daughter. It’s not because she is my daughter, my own offspring. But this trait does make me rather secretly proud of her; that my own kid has this trait that I don’t think I had- have even, as an adult. Already from the very early days of starting [...]
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Preparing for failure
April 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · A father's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, life skills, milestones
I came home from work this evening and Caitlin came and greeted me; oily mouthed, as her and her grandparents were already having dinner. “She said she was hungry already, so we started dinner first”, said Grandma. Caitlin then told me that she “came first today because I got the most stars.” Apparently her school [...]
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Little shits
March 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · A father's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting rules, life skills
So I was in The Gardens for dinner the other night, with Caleb, Caitlin, and our helper. We were in the food court; there was/is a small corner near its entrance that has a play mat – you know those jigsaw foam thingies that assemble into a mat. Caitlin was already eyeing that when we [...]
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