All About Your Child

I Lost My Report Book!
Allan had been asking, “Have you got back your report book?” whenever Keatkeat hops into the car after school, ever since the exams were over.

Finally, today he received the answer he had been waiting for. Keatkeat said: “Yes!”

I got excited because I always love to read the teacher’s comment section, so I said, “Yeah! I want to see.”

We drove from his school gate to the coffeeshop.
All school books were on the car seat.
School Bag was nearly emptied.
Yet, he has not passed me his report book yet.

“Where is your report book?!” Allan snapped.

“I don’t know! I remember putting it in my bag.” Keatkeat in his anxious tone replied.

“What do you mean you don’t know?! If you are so sure that you have put it in your bag then are you saying that it ran out of your bag on its own?!” I questioned.

“I really don’t know! I got put it in! I really did!” Keatkeat insisted.

We were pissed!

Keatkeat has lost several things before in the past and had been using his own money to get a replacement. I am a parent who does not believe in ‘paying’ for my child’s mistakes. Its vital that the child must learn to take responsibility and bare consequences even when they are young.

But its REPORT BOOK this time! Results from Primary 1 and 2 are in it. Not something you can buy with money, if the school system did not keep a record of past year results.

So we drove back to school. I instructed Keatkeat to go back to his class to search for his report book. The ______ (too angry to write the adjective) boy stood outside his empty classroom for one second and walked back to me and shook his head.

“Why didn’t you go into the class to search?!” I was furious!

Keatkeat: “No One Is inside.”

Me: “Of ‘cos no one is INSIDE!!! The class is over, your classmates have gone home and your teacher might have gone home too already! Get inside the classroom and search around your table now!!!”

Keatkeat went in and after a few seconds came out and said, “My friend, Tricia’s report book is on my table.”

Me: “Do you sit beside her?”

Keatkeat: “Yes.”

Me: “She must have taken your report book by mistake.”

Just then, a relief teacher walked towards us and we asked her if Keatkeat’s teacher was still in school, she said they were having a photo shooting session in the hall and told us to wait.

We waited for 30mins before she came and had the same conclusion as I. I asked: “Could you please call Tricia now and see if my son’s report book is with her. If yes, then we can drive to her place and exchange the report book with her.”

She agreed and left for her room. We waited for another 15mins and she confirmed our assumption. Tricia had Keatkeat’s report book. So we drove to her house immediately and exchanged the report books.

Though the report books were finally back to the rightful owner’s hands, it has also proven that Keatkeat’s ‘dreamy-sickness’ has worsen. Now he have hallucination. *eyes rolled*

He did not even put his report  book into his bag but he BELIEVED he did. *double eyes rolled*

I Lost My Report Book!Google

Remember this post “What is This?”

No one guessed it right the first time for that post. In fact, there was only ONE person who got it right after many many many tries.

So I told Keatkeat that he needs to improve on his ‘biting skills’ and he did this for me to guess again:

What is it?

Can you tell what is it?

My MIL called me early in the morning as said these: “Hey you, don’t be like last year ah! This year must remember the scores for each subject and tell me. Last year, you told me you forgot and so I do not know how well Keatkeat did for his exams and thus could not reward him. Every year, I put aside this (unrevealed) amount of money to reward my grandchildren when they do well for their exams. This year’s target for C.H. (eldest grandchild) is 80 and above for All Subjects.”

Me: “Huh?! So high ah?”

MIL: “She told me she wants those press press phone which cost above $100. (I think she is referring to iPhone) Of ‘cos I have to set the target higher. If too low, then the reward becomes meaningless already.”

Me: “So what’s Z.Y.’s (2nd grandchild) target?”

MIL: “Above 90 of ‘cos!”

Me *faint*: “WHAT?! Why so unfair? Just because she stays with you?”

MIL: “No lah! Because her mock exam paper scores showed that she is capapble of achieving that.”

Me: “Aiyo! Then my Keatkeat leh?”

Knowing that my MIL does not read my blog, so I thought she might not know that Keatkeat scored FULL MARKS FOR HIS ENGLISH MOCK EXAM PAPER and 90 FOR HIS MATHS MOCK EXAM PAPER.

I WAS DEAD WRONG!

My niece who is my blog’s number one fan told her! *Super Faint*

MIL: “I know Keatkeat scored full marks for his English fake paper. I scolded Z.Y. because of that. I scolded her, “study for 4 years and never get full marks for English before!”“

*faint* I really do NOT like such comparison. Unnecessary pressure and stress on both kids.

MIL continued: “So Keatkeat must also score something like that lor!”

ME: “WHAT??!! Full Marks also?! *Sarcastic Laugh* Then you can keep your money to yourself. I just want him to enjoy the exam paper and not go crazy over it.”

MIL: “Cannot! Must motivate him. So that I ‘got face’ mah, because these grandchildren were brought up by me. If they score well, means I brought them up well.”

*jaws dropped* HUH?! Why would the kids’ good grades become your credit, when you don’t even teach them at all?! Anyway, she didn’t bring up all her 6 grandchildren, so where’s the logic? *scratch head*

No matter what, this Grandma’s Love For Her Grandchildren is simply undeniable. *smile*

Grandma’s Love For Her Grandchildren

Keatkeat loves to draw detailed but super small, individual pictures. So much so that you need a magnifying glass in order not to miss out any ‘fine prints’. *laugh*

Binbin, on the other hand, loves to draw big, with story-line pictures. He will never fail to tell the story he just drew.

I have always thought, how nice it would be if they combine their strengths in drawing. However, being siblings and at their age of ‘fighting for individualism’ and ‘fighting to be recogn. with’, I could only dream on….

Then one fine day…

My wish came true!

It started with Binbin (the ‘story-line’ prince) drawing the ‘battle field‘ of the game Plants vs Zombies,
then Keatkeat (the ‘detailed’ prince) started to draw the ‘weapon bar‘ on top with all the amount of coins needed for each weapon WITHOUT even referring to the game itself! *jaws dropped*

NO ONE was playing the game at all when they were creating the masterpiece! Errrr… maybe that also shows how addicted they are with Plants vs Zombies. Ooops!

Then Binbin felt that it was not enough and added new Zombies and Keatkeat added the missing parts of the Zombies….

And there they went, working on the same piece of paper, back and forth, taking turns!
No argument.
No disagreement.
Perfect Harmony!

What a rare sight to see the two working together as a team!
Memorable!
*Super Grin*

Plants vs Zombies

Yup! Children’s Day has been changed to the first Friday of October. It is no longer 1st October anymore for children in Singapore. Personally, I think its a GREAT move! Long weekend! Yeah! *Grin*

Yesterday, Keatkeat asked me: “Mummy, I will finish all my worksheets from school today but can we not have any worksheets from you tomorrow? Its Children’s Day tomorrow. I want to have fun, fun, fun!”

Me: *Nodded*

Keatkeat exclaimed: “YEAH!!!” *jumping a little*

This morning, Binbin said: “Mummy, its Children’s Day today so no worksheets, right? Its play, Play, PLAY, right?”

Me: “Yes, Children’s Day is play, Play, PLAY!”

Binbin shouted: “YEAH!!!”

Just in case you are wondering why did they ask that, I mentioned in an earlier post “Does Your Child Fear Exam?”, I give them revision worksheets EVERYDAY, except Sundays, because of our weekly routine visit to spend a day with their grandparents every Sundays.

When your children do revision everyday, they can afford a day of FUN and PLAY, even during exam period! *Grin*

Happy Children‘s Day!