Do you listen to the teachers or the parents?

School kids nationwide are on holidays from this weekend on.

Caitlin has some holiday homework to do for the week off school, from (as far as I can see- gotta check her bag/books) 3 subjects of English, Malay and Chinese. Each of them have a date on the homework pages for respective dates of the week- [...]

August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting rules | 3 comments

The tongue

Being the youngest I grew up with books and some comics already in the house (as well as contemporary music like The Carpenters, some Beatles, Glen Campbell, John Denver… Oh my I’m scaring myself while I list this)

One of the comics that sticks in my head is Peanuts: Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Linus & his [...]

August 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Ergonomics, Parenting musing, Photo opp | 6 comments

The dread begins…

As prompted by Hissychick’s recent comment, Caitlin’s preschooling does include homework.

Lots of colouring
Math: Colouring the corresponding number of objects and repeated writing of numbers 1-8 at this point. It’s amazing that while Caitlin handled writing number 8 quite well, her number 2 is still problematic.
English: Colouring the corresponding object which first letter is the repeated [...]

July 25th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education | 6 comments