H got back his math exam paper. He got 84%, not bad for someone who didn't revise. I looked through the paper - he would have gotten 90% if not for careless mistakes. It's funny how he made careless mistakes on the simplest of questions, but for the more tricky ones, he got them all right. The other 10% I don't think he would have gotten since I'm quite certain he doesn't know how to spell words like hexagon, twelve, etc.
Parenting best practice is to praise effort and give encouragement! So here goes...
Praise effort
Mommy saw your maths paper, you got 42/50, that's really good.
I like that you try to spell the words even though you don't know how to...
Give encouragement
Mommy knows you can count the objects, you just didn't count carefully. Next time you count slowly or count it twice like this...
See now the teacher wrote down the spelling for you, next time you will know how to spell the words :-)
Great job H, gimme 5!!
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H was beaming with pride. The paper wasn't that difficult. I'm sure if drilled, most kids would have been able to score 100%.
Po-Po said that when she went to pick H up from school last Friday, H's English and Science teacher asked if we revise much with H at home. Po-Po said not really. Oops, that can only mean 2 things - he either aced his exams, or flunk really badly. We shall find out soon...
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