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 [...]
Downside of being popular?
June 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, life skills
Tags:Education·growing up·school
Another improvisation
July 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting musing, Photo opp, Short post, life skills
With a lack of toys and an abundance of imagination, Caitlin has had to improvise and make pretend toys to spend (some of) her days. Yes I am a pathetic parent letting my kid endure this. Her “skills” in improvising seems to have extended into her homework. See, they are teaching her “long” vowels, like [...]
Tags:creative·discipline·Education·growing up·school·Short post
Would you have given in?
March 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Education, Parenting rules, life skills
Friday morning we were getting ready for work and school respectively. Fridays are when Caitlin’s school has a wading session in their small pool. Since she’s always loved the pool it was always a welcomed day; that as well as an early-age adoption of the adult TGIF concept (she doesn’t seem to like school as [...]
Tags:discipline·Education·father·growing up·school·skills·trouble
Counting in Mandarin..
March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting musing, Short post, life skills, milestones
Caitlin knows her Mandarin counting from 1 – 10, audibly. As in, she can cite it. But give her a break, thus far it’s only in ascending order She also knows her roman numbers already (or do I mean gregorian?? You know- the numbers on your keyboard); proved herself repeatedly in the lift and (since [...]
Tags:Education·milestones·school·skills
First parent teacher meeting of the year
March 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting musing, Parenting rules, life skills, milestones
I started this post earlier, then other things got in the way, such as bring-home-work and kids-needing-Daddee stuff, and Daddee needing sleep stuff so that Daddee can bring more bring-home-work for Hot Mummee to complain about! So how was your weekend? Mine was fairly interesting. Saturday morning was when Caitlin’s school scheduled the year’s first [...]
Tags:discipline·Education·milestones·school
Crash course (10 dish course?) in project management
February 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · A father's POV, Education, Food & feeding, Parenting musing, Short post, Simple pleasures, milestones
I would say that in planning for this event, my niece has had her first taste in project (event?) managing and executing a pretty major event, even if it’s only a family affair. And being the cheeky uncle that I am, during times of emailing and IM-ing with her I pressured her highlighting things like [...]
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“… as my (a) family…”
September 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments · A toddler's POV, Adventures, Caitlin the heiress, Classic Quotes, Education, Parenting musing, Simple pleasures, milestones
I had actually wanted to put this in the Random Quotes section of this blog (there, on the right), but thought it to be too significant. I don’t know if she learnt it from school, or from Sesame Street’s podcast’s – this particular episode, but somewhere along the line Caitlin’s grasped the concept of family. [...]
