All About Your Child

The day after my birthday, I was blog hopping to Little Prince site. Little Prince was confused with when to use the word ‘You‘ and when to use ‘Me‘.

This was something which I had encountered before and the method I used worked for ‘my‘ child care centre toddlers, as well as my boys; and so I shared in the comment box:

“Sit him on your lap.
Hold his right hand in yours with the index finger pointing out.
Point to himself and say “Me”.
Point to another person or teddy bear and say “you”….
do it as and when you can, over and over again every day, till he gets it right.

the keypoint here is not for “you”, its rather for “me”. So that whenever he needs something for himself, he will say “me” and then when to say “you” becomes natural.
*wink*”

I was super happy when I saw this post, almost 2 weeks later, when Little Prince’s Mommy said:

“Oh Yes!
I’m no longer confuse between ‘me’ and ‘you’,
After many sections of special training by mummy,
Via activity suggested by Aunty Angeline!
Special thanks to Aunty Angeline :)”

It feels Awesome to be able to help. *Grin*

Do you face this problem too? Hope my method would work for your toddler as well.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE QUESTIONS!!!

Few days ago, I posted one of the more amusing question which my ever inquisitive Keatkeat asked. (See post here)

And Ryan Mami asked (See comments): “Err…wonder how do you explain/relate the answers found in the internet to them??”

Bringing myself down to a child’s level of understanding is a skill which I’m still perfecting. Ever since I joined the child care centre almost 20 years ago, I began to learn and even after I have left the centre, I continued to practise. So here was my ‘kids version’ of the answer.

Me: “Keatkeat what is the difference between a boy and a girl?”

Keatkeat: “Boyboy have gugu-jiao (penis) and girlgirl don’t have.”

Me: “Other than this, what other difference? Do you both have eyes, nose, mouth, face, ears, legs, hands….?”

Keatkeat: “Yes.”

Me: “So since girls have nipples, boys have them too. Because we are all human. Having nipples is just part of what makes up a human body. So even though, you do not have milk in your ne-ne-pok (breast), the nipples are there to prove that you are a human.”

Keatkeat: “Ooorrrhhh… Internet very good hor. Everything also know.”

*wink*

For a 5 year old kid, details are not necessary.
For a 5 year old kid, simplicity is the essence.
So long as the kid is satisfied, your mission is accomplished.
~ Angeline Foong