Beating the morning traffic, dropping kids off to school, rushing into work, gobbling down breakfast, meetings meetings meetings, gobbling down lunch, working working working, beating the rush hour traffic home, packing in quality time with kids, putting kids to bed, researching blogging facebooking... and finally ZZzzzzzzzz...
L, at 3, is not showing much interest in the academic side. I mean, compared to H, he already mastered his phonics and could already spell simple words at 3. I hate to compare and it has not really bothered me since L is really a smart cookie. It's just that she's not interested in learning her A-B-Cs yet. Why am I bringing this up? Daddy made a comment last night about L still not knowing her letters and whether we should be concern. Well no I said, she's only 3. And to be fair, she does know her letters and sounds, it's just that she doesn't like to be asked or tested. Daddy thinks we should bring out the 'Ants on the Apple' book and start singing to her since she loves singing. I guess we haven't really been as diligent with L as we've been with H. We used to sing him 'Ants on the Apple' when he was a baby. Not sure if that was why he picked up phonics so quickly, but I reckon it's more to do with his interest which borderlines obsessiveness. When H is interested in something, he gets really obsessed about it.
Since L loves to sing, I guess one way to get her interested in learning the alphabet and phonics is to play her music. Instead of watching cartoons, perhaps it's worth letting her watch the jolly phonics videos instead. She's already doing jolly phonics in school, so better to be consistent :-)
This should satisfy daddy. I thought moms are supposed to be the kiasu ones. In our case, daddy seems to be more kiasu... hahaha.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI came across your blog and I find it really interesting. Thank you for sharing your stories. Do you know that research has shown that one in four Malaysians will suffer from cancer by the age of 75? I am sure you will be able to empathize with this.
Despite the widespread of cancer awareness campaigns in Malaysia, most people do not realize that due to the severity of the illness, post chemotherapy patients usually retire to day cares where they can get back to their feet under scrutiny of medical experts. And this process can be demanding physically, emotionally and financially to the patients and their loved ones.
My name is Cassie from Lion & Lion, the digital agency and we are currently working together with AXA AFFIN for a cancer outreach campaign.
AXA AFFIN, in collaboration with National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM), are supporting cancer patients currently undergoing chemotherapy in this campaign. AXA AFFIN will fund the chemotherapy daycare usage to one cancer patients for every blogger that links back to AXA AFFIN 110CancerCare website in their effort to care for cancer patients. In essence, a post from you gets a cancer patient one-day funding for their daycare usage at NCSM Treatment Centre.
I would like to ask if you would help us by writing a post regarding cancer and linking it back to AXA AFFIN website. This small act from you would make a huge difference to cancer patients going through recovery both financially and emotionally.
Do let me know if you are able to lend a hand in this great initiative. You can contact me at cassie.seow@lionandlion.com and/or 011-26893139.
Thank you and looking forward to your reply.
Regards,
Cassie Seow