All About Your Child

For the experienced mummies, you know how short the lifespan of toys are, especially when their fate is in the hands of a 2-year-old.Their Christmas presents, as expected, were mainly remote control cars. Allan and I were already expecting the outcome of the fate of these cars, errrmm…not so much of the cars but the controls’ antenna.

Binbin loves to pull them out to the maximum and then push them back. I guess he enjoys playing with it more that getting the cars to work by pushing the buttons on the control.

Extending the antenna is easy. The difficult part is when Binbin tries to push it back down. You know, my 2-year-old is a ‘muscle-kid’, he is even stronger than his 4-year-old brother.

Whenever he tries too hard to push the antenna back, it BREAKS INTO 2! He will run to us with the panic look,”Mummy, spoil already. How?” Then we would just unscrew the antenna out and he will have to control the car from a near distance.

This time, it was the same, the only difference was we found blood on one of the broken end of the antenna. We searched for the source of the blood stain all over Binbin’s body, by the way my little one was still giggling, thinking that we were tickling him.

Then we saw the blood stain on his shirt, tilted his head up and saw the 4cm cut at the bottom of his left cheek.

“Is it painful?” I asked the most silly questions in the world.

“Nope.”

Ever since Binbin was able to crawl, I learnt that my boy had the highest level of pain threshold that I have ever seen in any kid in my life.

He can fall from his crib and all he did was a loud ‘waiy’ and then he is quiet.

His walker can turned upside down with him in it, and he didn’t even made a sound.

He can knock his head on the wall with a huge bump and he don’t even frown.

I am not exaggerating, I truly have an amazing boy when it comes to pain tolerance.

Do you have an amazing kid like mine?

Happy New Year, Everyone! May this year brings us lots of happiness, health and wealth!

For the kids, today marks the end of the school holidays, its getting ready to go back to the classrooms again.

As Keatkeat will be learning how to tell the time in this year’s Kindergarten 1, I thought I might as well train him to tell the time as he looks forward to his favourite cartoons. In this way, there is a fixed time for TV enjoyment and the empty time slots will be for worksheets, meals and playing with the love-of-his-life : Cars.

Luckily the duration of each cartoon is only half-an-hour, so there is plenty of breaks to rest those beautiful eyes.

“I’m sorry Binbin, you will need to play less this year now.

In order to help your brother to strike a balance between study and play, you will need to make some sacrifice, afterall you need to get yourself geared up for school too starting 2009, right?”

There is one thing that I could never tolerate….parents who forcus too much on academic of the child and neglect the child’s need for relaxation!

These parents just could not see that when the child’s mind is less pressurized, he learns better and faster!

Striking a balance is so important, but to them, their kids must be ranked the top 3 in class or score above 95 for every subject! My question to such parents are, were you that good in your time? If no, then what makes you think that your ‘less intelligent genes’ did not pass down to your child? His your child isn’t he?

Every person have his own limitation, don’t overstretch it, know the limits, find out the limits! Every day its the same routine : school, meal, worksheets and worksheets and worksheets before sleep. Its ridiculous!

So many parents have forgotten that they had been treated in this way by their own parents when they were young and they hated it! Yet now they are doing the same thing or worse, to their own children. *sigh*

Are you such a parent? or are you a parent that believes in giving your child a balance in work and play?