We think about the good times, the laughs we had, the activities we did together, the games we played, the things we shared. These are quite typical memories we have and we conjure up, when we are bored or when we miss those times, and especially so, the people who helped create them. We usually [...]
Reminiscing
July 21st, 2010 · No Comments · A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress
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 [...]
Tags:Education·growing up·school
Discipline on time management
September 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · A father's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Ergonomics, Parenting musing, Parenting rules, life skills
I was just reading this article about disciplining children, and reminded me of what had happened only this morning. Granted it would always be the parents’ fault if children don’t get sufficient sleep/not going to bed early enough. Of late, I have found that Caitlin would still wake at around the same time in the [...]
Tags:bedtime·discipline·growing up·school·skills
Do you listen to the teachers or the parents?
August 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting rules
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 [...]
Tags:holidays·homework·school·teachers
The tongue
August 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Ergonomics, Parenting musing, Photo opp
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 & [...]
Tags:concentration·homework·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
How to nurture a preschooler’s creativity?
July 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education, Parenting musing, Photo opp, life skills
I am in kinda stressed frame of mind at the moment I have mentioned before about Caitlin’s creative streak. When we are at home just chilling and the kids are watching the idiot box, Caitlin would actually “multitask” and do some handicraft, using the scrap A4 papers that HM and I bring home from the [...]
