Early Breastfeeding Education

The beauty of breastfeeding has been implanted into JS’s young mind. It seems to be a norm thing to her and part of our daily routine now after seeing me breastfed WH for so long.

Some days I caught her doing this to her dolly:
Pulling up her shirt and attempt to breastfeed dolly. She would say” dolly, you hungry? I give you nen nen”

When WH rolling on the bed, she would also go to WH, pull up her shirt, try to pull WH over to her chest and say ” didi, you want nen nen?? I give you nen nen” WH will struggle away from her hug and shaking his head.

I also caught her saying this to WH “WH you big boy now. No more nen nen. Go drink milk and sleep by yourself. No need mummy’s nen nen”

Now when she wants me to sleep with her at night, she doesn’t say “come and sleep with me mummy.” Instead she would say “mummy, didi finish nen nen or not?” “Mummy, is didi sleeping already, still drinking nen nen? After didi finish you come huh.”

There was one night, I was nursing WH to sleep but at the same time I closed my eyes resting. JS didn’t see me nursing baby, she only saw WH moving around not sleeping, so she said to me “mummy, don’t sleep. Give didi nen nen , he’s not sleeping yet”

JS’s School Progress

Last Wednesday 24th May, 2006 was suppose to be JS’s school Parent and Teacher’s day. I have forgotten about it (actually mistaken it to be the last day of school which is Friday) and also JS was sick at home so we missed it.

Went to collect her exam papers and report card on Friday. Her marks
Mandarin : 66%
BM: 100%
English: 98%
Maths: 96%
Science and Hygene : 100%

I know she must of gotten some help from the teachers during exam, else she won’t get this grade. I didn’t even prepare her for the exam, thinking that don’t want to pressure her.

In her report card, most of the items she has got GOOD grades from the teacher. Those highlight as making progress were English (pre-writing skill, simple spelling), BM (suku kata, oral fluency in BM, ability to ask in BM, Ability to listen and retain info in BM, ability to use BM to communicate and pre-writing skill), Mandarin (chinese stroke) – I’m surprise other area in Mandarin she scored GOOD.

Overall comment: She’s good. Taken interest in her work. Very good in singing and loves music.

I don’t know how accurate is the marking in the report card. Have the teachers been lenient or have I underestimated her. I can see that she loves doing her homework. She can colour very well (only at home, the workbook she brought back from school is so different from the work she’s done at home. Her colouring at school was a mess)

Haven’t been reallly pushy with her learning. Have not done much home schooling lately. Never press on her writing skill as I think she’s still young. (Am reading through my text book on child development, topic on development of language and communication in preschool children. I know it’s not right to start writing at the tender age of 3, somemore on a workbook with blue and red lines which is so confusing to a young kid, so I’m going in depth into my text book to confirm it. ). In fact I have been taking in a more relaxing approach lately. Maybe I should slowly start flash card and spelling again on introducing new words to her. I’m going to put what I learn daily from the text book and apply it to my kids.

To Blog Or Not?

Chatting with hubby the other night. He mentioned about the 8 yro girl from JB that has got murdered. I said ” yeah lah, blame the mother lah, got husband got kids already still so miang go befriend all the guys from newspaper ad through SMS” Then hubby said “you also the same lah…write so many personal stuff on the blog, you not scared? It’s like an open book for people to see what’s going on in this household. Why do you have to do so. You are putting our safety at risk.” What he said is quite true also. Though I might not have many readers, but still I cannot track who is reading my blog. It’s like luring the wolf to the house (引狼入室). But again, there are so many people blogging,some even with photo blogs. Haven’t they for once worried about it as well? Will I be so lucky to be spotted from these 1 in a zillion of blogs? I told hubby that I’m a cautious person, but he said that there would be time that I would have let my guard off due to whatever reason. (Maybe being hypnotise???)

Shall I or shall I not take down my blog？I’ve just found this newfound hobby of blogging, but now I’m asked to give up. I wanted to, but a bit “唔捨得＂．Am too lazy to write diary these day. Hand writting is slower than typing. By the end of the page, I no longer can read my own hand writting. (really cakar ayam) , I’m not motivated to open up MS Words, to type out a diary. No fun. If I still keep this blog on, hubby might be angry with me for not listening to him. Maybe I should just take down those post with pictures of my kids and post with personal feeling and thoughts. Just leave those very general one posted. How about that?