All About Your Child

We were so lucky to be able to grab a wonderful offer last month. $20 for 4 beginners swimming lessons. The moment I saw it, I grabbed two immediately! Actually, this lesson was more for Keatkeat than Binbin.

Binbin is such an amazing kid. To me, Binbin is a very talented child. Fast learner, great observer and excellent creator.

Under the unprofessional teaching of their dad, Binbin already knew how to swim a distance by holding his breath in a short time. But Keatkeat still struggles to keep afloat on the water after so long.

Well, it would definitely be unfair to Binbin if I enrolled his elder brother of 2 years, for this fabulous swimming lesson by the professional, and not include him. So these 4 lessons would be ‘fine-tuning’ lessons for Binbin and truly basic lessons for Keatkeat.

So how was first lesson?

My sis and I were doing live commentary while watching them. It was funny! There were only 4 kids in this group.
One was EXTREMELY unwilling, lots of whining and crying. From the photo above you can tell who was it. (sitting)
The other was very active but was a little afraid to hold his breath and put his head into the water. (back-facing us)
And not forgetting my boys, who were the so-called ‘advanced’ students in the class. (Extreme Left-Keatkeat. Hand on Face-Binbin.)

Here’s what they did in order:

1. Sat on the edge of pool and kicked water.
2. Held their breath and put their face into the water for a number of seconds.
3. Straightened and lifted two arms in the air, with palms on top of each other, jumped a little and ‘dived’ into the water while standing inside the pool.
4. Learn to use the surfboard, holding it the correct way.
5. Swim with the surfboard.
6. Played ‘go under water for the rocket’ game.

The kids kept saying “This is sooooooooooooo fun!” at the end of the short 45mins lesson. “I like the instructor.” “I want to come again.”

Oh you sure will, at least you must, for another 3 more lessons! I paid for it alright. *laugh*

Our aim is merely to see how far they progress at the end of the fourth lesson before we decide if we should let them continue and pay the full price.

Not forgetting to end my post by thanking my lobang queen sis for introducing this great offer.

Kids said:
“Thank You Ah Yee!”

This year is going to be an exciting year for Keatkeat! Seriously, Keatkeat is not an academically strong kid, but he is talented in many other no-pen-and-non-paper activities.

Whenever he watches ‘fighting’ shows, he can strike the exact same pose or fighting strokes just by watching it once. Well, there have been alot of times he tried his untrained martial arts on his younger brother and his dad. Boy! It hurts according to his victims.

So as a Mommy, I have to set rules and stuff to prevent Keatkeat giving a punch or a kick too hard on Binbin. ‘Fighting’ may seemed like a bad thing to many people, but if its put to good use, as a sports for good health and a way to protect oneself, I see all benefits and no negatives.

Keatkeat’s first choice for Extra Ciriculum Activities in school was Lion Dance. *laugh* Oh you know how crazy this whole family is over that art. Well, no such activities in Primary School but we have gone to the extend to find out that there IS in his preferred Secondary School. Yeah! So he would have to wait for another 4 more years before his wish can come true.

So for now, we have been hoping that his Primary school would have Judo or Taekwondo and our wish came true last Friday! Yippee! *clap clap clap*

The moment Keatkeat received the letter asking for new recruits to the Singapore Taekwondo team, we signed up without a second of hesitation! He was jumping with joy “Yeah! I’m joining Taekwondo!”

$90 first up for registration, uniform and 3 months of training. Pretty cheap isn’t?  That’s the good thing about joining such activities through the school. *Grin*

First lesson began today! Look how handsome my boy is! I am such a proud Mommy! *Super Grin*

After 90mins of training, my boy was grinning from cheek to cheek, with his uniform on for the first time when we went to fetch him.

As parents, we want to be there for him to share his every moment of joy, excitement, achievement… and well disappointment and tears (if any)…

The moment I greeted him “Hi Handsome!”

He rattled on non-stopped, “Mommy, my teacher, Tom, said I am very cute and good because I pay attention and follow instructions. The other instructor, Janson, said I am the best in the whole white belt group. During one of the exercise, Janson said I did very fast and very well, he said overall the whole white belt group is better than the yellow belt group. The yellow belt group was unhappy and complained, “The exercise was too confusing lah.” I felt very proud of myself. *smile*“

He continued after taking a brief moment recalling the happy incident, “I wish there is Taekwondo every day. Soooooooooo Fun! *Grin*”

My wish for him is, may Taekwondo strengthen his weak body, train his wandering mind to be focus, discipline his reckless actions and most importantly, have lots of fun!

Would you let your child learn Taekwondo?