All About Your Child

Binbin told me that they are going to dance to the Starlight Moonlight song from the Korean group ~ Secret.

Unlike my eldest niece, I hardly follow the movement of Korean singers. So I search ‘Starlight Moonlight’ with the enthusiastic Binbin standing next to me. The moment the dancing started, my mind went “You are NOT Serious, are you?!”

Me: “I love the song…but are you going to dance like them too?”

Binbin: “OF COS NOT! Its so girly! I am not a girl! I am a boy!”

I wanted to check it out for myself and that was the very first question I asked when I saw Miss S. this morning, “Are the boys going to dance to those steps in the Starlight Moonlight video too?”

Miss S.: “We are still improvising. Some steps are too girlish. We might replace those girlish dance steps with some tap-dancing for the boys. But nothing is confirmed yet. Will wait for the dance teacher to decide.”

Yesterday was the first rehearsal. Binbin told me that all the boys were laughing away when they were dancing. If I was a boy, I would be laughing too man!

Looking forward to watch his Graduation performance much more now…

I do not really bother about how a pencil is held. But if it starts to cause unnecessary uncomfort or distraction when my children are doing their school work, then its a sign that something needs to change.

Since preschool, I  had never liked the way Keatkeat gripped his pencil. It was way too low, so much so that his fingers were holding onto the ‘exposed wooden part’ of the pencil, where its slanted, and his weak fingers kept sliding down to the pencil tip.

Even after thousands of times of reminding him to “Hold Higher”, Keatkeat still finds it difficult to change his way of holding the pencil.

As for Binbin, he holds his pencil as if he is writing Chinese calligraphy, which forces his fingers to exert more energy because there is little support at the bottom of the pencil, thus his fingers get tired very easily.

That was the case for a long time until I found this early childhood rubber pencil grip for kids during December last year. I did not blog about it back then because I need to test its effectiveness first.

So I gave it a few months to show its worth.

Keatkeat

Yes, its showing signs of improvement for both of them after more than 6 months, I guess, it is not a get-fix-quick kind of remedy. Habits die hard!

The kids really need more time with the rubber pencil grip, before they could start holding the pencil the ‘right’ way, without the rubber pencil grip that is.

Binbin

If your child is starting to learn how to hold a pencil, then this early childhood rubber pencil grip would probably do much more for him or her, as compared to my boys who had been holding their pencil the ‘wrong’ way for years.

Early Childhood Rubber Pencil Grip for Kids